Five Modes of Agrippa
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The Five Modes of Agrippa are a set of skeptical arguments in ancient philosophy that aim to undermine claims to certain knowledge by highlighting issues like disagreement, infinite regress, relativity, hypothesis, and circular reasoning.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Five Modes of Agrippa Context triple: [Pyrrhonian skepticism, includes, Five Modes of Agrippa]
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Constructions of Reason
Constructions of Reason is a philosophical work by Onora O’Neill that develops a Kantian account of practical reason, autonomy, and justification in ethics and political philosophy.
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Bacon’s theory of idols
Bacon’s theory of idols is Francis Bacon’s influential framework in early modern philosophy that categorizes the systematic errors and biases that distort human understanding and impede the pursuit of true scientific knowledge.
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Contra Celsum
Contra Celsum is a major apologetic work by the early Christian theologian Origen, written in the 3rd century as a detailed rebuttal of the pagan philosopher Celsus’s criticisms of Christianity.
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The Incoherence of the Philosophers
The Incoherence of the Philosophers is a landmark 11th-century work of Islamic philosophy and theology by Al-Ghazali that critiques the metaphysical doctrines of earlier Muslim philosophers and helped reshape the course of Islamic thought.
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E.
Adversus Logicos
Adversus Logicos is a work by the ancient skeptic philosopher Sextus Empiricus that critically examines and challenges the foundations of logical theory.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Five Modes of Agrippa Target entity description: The Five Modes of Agrippa are a set of skeptical arguments in ancient philosophy that aim to undermine claims to certain knowledge by highlighting issues like disagreement, infinite regress, relativity, hypothesis, and circular reasoning.
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A.
Constructions of Reason
Constructions of Reason is a philosophical work by Onora O’Neill that develops a Kantian account of practical reason, autonomy, and justification in ethics and political philosophy.
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B.
Bacon’s theory of idols
Bacon’s theory of idols is Francis Bacon’s influential framework in early modern philosophy that categorizes the systematic errors and biases that distort human understanding and impede the pursuit of true scientific knowledge.
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C.
Contra Celsum
Contra Celsum is a major apologetic work by the early Christian theologian Origen, written in the 3rd century as a detailed rebuttal of the pagan philosopher Celsus’s criticisms of Christianity.
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D.
The Incoherence of the Philosophers
The Incoherence of the Philosophers is a landmark 11th-century work of Islamic philosophy and theology by Al-Ghazali that critiques the metaphysical doctrines of earlier Muslim philosophers and helped reshape the course of Islamic thought.
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E.
Adversus Logicos
Adversus Logicos is a work by the ancient skeptic philosopher Sextus Empiricus that critically examines and challenges the foundations of logical theory.
- F. None of above. chosen
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