Belief — Pyrrhonism (Scepticism)

Figures

who it looks to — gods, spirits, ancestors; some rooms are empty on principle All 1 →

P Pyrrho of Elis — who wrote nothing. His pupil Timon preserved him in satirical verse, and Diogenes Laertius collected the anecdotes. He is a school's founder in the way a saint is: by having been watched. Domain Living without opinionsStanding Wrote nothing at all — the school is named after a man who left no text Meet them — context →

Core Tenets

2 — a sample of the center, never the sum All 2 →

The shared center — held across the tradition

For every argument, an equal argument. Isostheneia: set the case against the case until neither outweighs the other. What follows is not a conclusion but a stop. Go deeper — context →

It is belief that hurts, not the world. The sceptic gets cold and hungry like anyone else. What he is spared is the second layer — the conviction that cold is bad in its nature — and that layer is where most suffering lives. Go deeper — context →

Cosmos & Afterlife

how reality is built, and what follows death

The nature of reality

Unknown, and the question is one the sceptic declines to answer

After death

Suspended. To assert annihilation is as dogmatic as to assert survival.