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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 ( epoché ).
It is also known as Agrippa's trilemma or the Agrippan trilemma [2] after a similar argument reported by Sextus Empiricus, which was attributed to Agrippa the Skeptic by Diogenes Laërtius. Sextus' argument, however, consists of five (not three) " modes ".
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.
Agrippa (mythology), semi-mythological king of Alba Longa; Agrippa (astronomer), Greek astronomer from the late 1st century; Agrippa the Skeptic, Skeptic philosopher at the end of the 1st century; Agrippa Menenius Lanatus, Roman consul in 503 BC; Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (63–12 BC), Roman statesman and general, friend and lieutenant of ...
In August 1987 Skeptics made a video for the Skeptics III track "AFFCO", named after the New Zealand meat processing company AFFCO.Directed by Stuart Page, the video was filmed in the Westfield Freezing Company and Kellax meat packers in Auckland and included graphic footage of lambs being slaughtered and cut up, contrasted with footage of lambs in a field.
On December 9, 2008 (the sixteenth anniversary of the original Transmission), "The Agrippa Files", working with a scholarly team at the University of Maryland, released an emulated run of the entire poem [21] (derived from an original diskette loaned by a collector) and an hour's worth of "bootleg" footage shot covertly at the Americas Society (the source of the text that was posted on MindVox).
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Edmund Welles's first performance took place in 1999. The group's first CD, Agrippa's 3 Books, which was made possible by a grant from Chamber Music America, [2] was released in August 2005. Their second album, Tooth & Claw, came out in 2007.