Crossword-Solution: PYRRHONISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pyrrhonism | n. | Skepticism; universal doubt. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “PYRRHONISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| DOCTRINE that certainty of knowledge is unattainable | 1 answer |
| PHILOSOPHIC doubt | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
IMNEOTO
Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with PYRRHONISM (5)
And thus, O circular philosopher, I hear some reader exclaim, you have arrived at a fine Pyrrhonism, at an equivalence and indifferency of all actions, and would fain teach us that _if we are true_, forsooth, our crimes may be lively stones out of which we shall construct the temple of the true God! I am not careful to justify myself.
Nay, I cannot help carrying my Pyrrhonism still further, and extending it often to historical facts themselves, at least to most of the circumstances with which they are related; and every day's experience confirms me in this historical incredulity.
This historical Pyrrhonism, then, proves nothing against the study and knowledge of history; which, of all other studies, is the most necessary for a man who is to live in the world.
Nay, I cannot help carrying my Pyrrhonism still further, and extending it often to historical facts themselves, at least to most of the circumstances with which they are related; and every day’s experience confirms me in this historical incredulity.
Whoever shall imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without bias, propension, or inclination, upon any occasion whatever, conceives a true idea of Pyrrhonism.