An Epitome of Pyrrhonism

Don’t Confuse Pyrrhonism With Skepticism

Pyrrhonism is the earliest form of Western philosophical skepticism; however, what we now consider to be skepticism is so greatly different from Pyrrhonism that calling Pyrrhonism “skepticism” produces severe and difficult-to-reverse misconceptions of what Pyrrhonism is. This is exacerbated by presentations of Pyrrhonism that distort it, sometimes with blithe excuses such as this…