Re:Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults?
by rpcope1 on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @12:02PM
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More people should read Sextus Empiricus as he's basically the O.G. Phyrronist skeptic and goes pretty hard on this very train of thought.
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Re:Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults?
by bobson381 on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @12:09PM
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Cool. Any specific recs or places to start with him?
Re:Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults?
by rpcope1 on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @12:25PM
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Probably the Hackett book, "Sextus Empiricus: Selections from the Major Writings on Scepticism"
Re:Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults?
by bobson381 on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @12:40PM
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Thanks!
Re:Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults?
by Telemakhos on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @02:41PM
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If I remember my Gellius, it was the Academic Skeptics who claimed that the only certainty was uncertainty; the Pyrrhonists, in opposition, denied that one could be certain about the certainty of uncertainty.