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Pyrrhonism|ˈpɪrənɪz(ə)m|
Also 8 pyrro-.
[f. as prec. + -ism. In F. pyrrhonisme (Pascal, 17th c.).]
A system of sceptic philosophy taught by Pyrrho of Elis (c 300 b.c.), founder of the first school of Greek sceptic philosophy; the doctrine of the impossibility of attaining certainty of knowledge; absolute or universal scepticism; hence generally, scepticism, incredulity, philosophic doubt.
1670Blount Glossogr. (ed. 3), Pyrrhonism, the Doctrine or tenets of Pyrrho. 1711Shaftesbury Charac., Moralists iii. i, You,..tho you disown philosophy, are yet so true a Proselyte to Pyrrhonism. 1768Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 116 Driven into arrant pyrrhonism, as being wholly uncertain whether we know anything or not. 1863F. Jacox in Bentley's Misc. LIV. 241 Another noble lord..avows his disposition to extend his pyrrhonism..to historical facts themselves. 1893J. B. Brown Stoics & Saints 12 A misinterpretation of the Socratic method was at the root of Pyrrhonism. 1899S. L. Wilson Theol. Mod. Lit. 359 To lapse into the unreasoning pyrrhonism which would treat all history in the light of ‘a laborious deception skilfully concocted’. |