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Little is known about Sextus Empiricus. He likely lived in Alexandria, Rome, or Athens. [1] His Roman name, Sextus, implies he was a Roman citizen. [2] The Suda, a 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia, states that he was the same person as Sextus of Chaeronea, [3] as do other pre-modern sources, but this identification is commonly doubted. [4]
Robert Gregg Bury (/ ˈ b j ʊər i /; 22 March 1869 – 11 February 1951) was an Irish Anglican clergyman, classicist, philologist, and a translator of the works of Plato and Sextus Empiricus into English.
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The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed a lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of two Purdue University Fort Wayne professors to block a new state law that opponents say will stifle free speech ...
Against the Ethicists, Sextus Empiricus, Oxford University Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0-19-823620-7 Against the Logicians , Sextus Empiricus, Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-521-53195-5 "Sextus Empiricus' Against the Physicists" , Cambridge University Press, 2012, ISBN 052151391X , 9780521513913
However, Weintraub claims in The Philosophical Quarterly [5] that although Sextus's approach to the problem appears different, Hume's approach was actually an application of another argument raised by Sextus: [6] Those who claim for themselves to judge the truth are bound to possess a criterion of truth. This criterion, then, either is without ...
The Pyrrhonist philosopher Sextus Empiricus described the problem of circular reasoning as "the reciprocal trope": The reciprocal trope occurs when what ought to be confirmatory of the object under investigation needs to be made convincing by the object under investigation; then, being unable to take either in order to establish the other, we ...
An attorney representing education officials appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis Friday told a federal appeals court that Florida lawmakers, if they so choose, can prohibit professors from criticizing ...