Pyrrhonism and the Dialectical Methods: The Aims and Argument of PH II

Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy (forthcoming)
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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to show how PH II constitutes an original, ambitious, and unified skeptical inquiry into logic. My thesis is that Sextus’s argument in Book II is meant to accomplish both its stated goal (to investigate the topics typically grouped together by dogmatists under the heading of “logic”) and an unstated goal. The unstated goal is, in my view, interesting in itself and sheds new light on Sextus’s methodology. The goal is: to suspend judgement on the effectiveness of dogmatic methodologies.

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Justin Vlasits
University of Illinois, Chicago

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