Pyrrhonism (Scepticism)

Philosophy·Founded c. 300 BCE·No longer practised

Pyrrhonism (Scepticism)

Branch

Stories

the narratives it tells itself
The painter who threw the sponge. Apelles could not paint the foam on a horse's mouth, gave up, and threw his dirty sponge at the panel. The mark it left was the foam. Read it in full — context & 1 source →

The Scriptures

the texts that carry the stories — and everything else

Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism

Sextus Empiricus, Against the Mathematicians

Diogenes Laertius, Lives, Book IX

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