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concept3rd century BCE-1st century BCE

Academic Skepticism

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epistemology

Summary

Skeptical phase of Plato's Academy led by Arcesilaus and Carneades, arguing that nothing can be known with certainty and advocating suspension of judgment (epoché).

Core Contribution

Arcesilaus and Carneades developed arguments that no impression carries a criterion allowing certainty, targeting Stoic kataleptic impressions; recommended practical action based on the persuasive (pithanon) without assent to truth.

Historical Influences

Arcesilaus Carneades

Intellectual Lineage

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Allied Works

Academica Outlines of Pyrrhonism

Contemporaries & Peers

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Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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