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  2. Agrippa the Skeptic - Wikipedia

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    Agrippa (Greek: Ἀγρίππας) was a Pyrrhonist philosopher who probably lived towards the end of the 1st century CE. [1] He is regarded as the author of "The Five Tropes (or Modes, in Greek: τρόποι) of Agrippa", which are purported to establish the necessity of suspending judgment ().

  3. Pyrrhonism - Wikipedia

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    These "tropes" or "modes" are given by Sextus Empiricus in his Outlines of Pyrrhonism. According to Sextus, they are attributed only "to the more recent skeptics" and it is by Diogenes Laërtius that we attribute them to Agrippa. [13] The five tropes of Agrippa are:

  4. Agrippa (A Book of the Dead) - Wikipedia

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    The construction of the book and the subject matter of the poem within it share a metaphorical connection in the decay of memory. [35] [36] In this light, critic Peter Schwenger asserts that Agrippa can be understood as organized by two ideas: the death of Gibson's father, and the disappearance or absence of the book itself. [37]

  5. Three Books of Occult Philosophy - Wikipedia

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    In 1526-27, Agrippa published a satirical-critical work called De Incertitudine Et Vanitate Scientiarum Liber, in which he seemingly retracted his Three Books, apparently admitting that his occult studies were misguided. However, whether Agrippa was genuine remains a matter of scholarly debate.

  6. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa - Wikipedia

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    Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (/ ə ˈ ɡ r ɪ p ə /; German:; 14 September 1486 – 18 February 1535) was a German Renaissance polymath, physician, legal scholar, soldier, knight, theologian, and occult writer. Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy published in 1533 drew heavily upon Kabbalah, Hermeticism, and Neoplatonism.

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  8. Philosophical skepticism - Wikipedia

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    Another set are known as the five tropes of Agrippa: Dissent – The uncertainty demonstrated by the differences of opinions among philosophers and people in general. Progress ad infinitum – All proof rests on matters themselves in need of proof, and so on to infinity, i.e, the regress argument.

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    There’s lots more where this comes from — including tropes such as secret baby, the rake and the ingenue, forced proximity, marriage in trouble, forbidden love, and love triangle and so many more.