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| The Academics; Difference of Opinion Among Them.
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Chapter XX.—The
Academics; Difference of Opinion Among Them.
And another opinion of the philosophers was called
that of the Academics,133
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See Diogenes Laertius’ Lives, x. 63 (Bohn’s
Library); Plutarch, De Placitis Philosophorum, iv. 3. |
on account of those holding their discussions in the Academy, of whom
the founder Pyrrho, from whom they were called Pyrrhonean philosophers,
first introduced the notion of the incomprehensibility of all things,
so as to (be ready to) attempt an argument on either side of a
question, but not to assert anything for certain; for that there is
nothing of things intelligible or sensible true, but that they appear
to men to be so; and that all substance is in a state of flux and
change, and never continues in the same (condition). Some
followers, then, of the Academics say that one ought not to declare an
opinion on the principle of anything, but simply making the attempt to
give it up; whereas others subjoined the formulary “not
rather”134
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Diogenes Laertius, Lives, ix. 75; Sextus Empiricus,
Hypotyp., i. 188–192. | (this than that),
saying that the fire is not rather fire than anything else. But
they did not declare what this is, but what sort it is.135
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This is what the Academics called “the phenomenon”
(Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrh. Hyp., i. 19–22). | E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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