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Thursday, February 1, 2024

Too much s(c/k)epticism

 We're scheduled to discuss Pyrrhonian skepticism today in CoPhi, and we're meeting in the library. Really. It doesn't just seem so.


(Pyrrho seems to me a lot like Douglas Adams's "ruler of the universe"--"I say what it occurs to me to say when I hear people say things. More I cannot say..."…)
"All sorts of philosophers from Aristotle to David Hume ["a wise man proportions his belief to the evidence"] have argued that too much scepticism makes life impossible...

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