Against the Physicists
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Against the Physicists is an ancient philosophical work by Sextus Empiricus that presents a skeptical critique of dogmatic claims in natural philosophy and metaphysics.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Against the Physicists canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
ancient Greek philosophical text
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philosophical work ⓘ |
| aim |
to show the equipollence of opposing arguments about nature
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to undermine claims to certain knowledge about nature ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Adversus Physicos
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Pros Physikous NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Sextus Empiricus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Greek Antiquity
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surface form:
Ancient Greece
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| criticizes |
Aristotelian physics
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Epicurean physics ⓘ Stoic physics ⓘ dogmatic natural philosophers ⓘ metaphysical dogmatism ⓘ |
| genre |
natural philosophy critique
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skeptical philosophy ⓘ |
| influenced |
early modern philosophy of science
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later skeptical philosophy ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Hellenistic philosophical debates
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earlier Pyrrhonian skeptics ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
epistemology
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metaphysics ⓘ natural philosophy ⓘ skepticism ⓘ |
| method |
setting opposing arguments in balance
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systematic critique of dogmatic theses ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| partOf | Adversus Mathematicos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool | Pyrrhonism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| philosophicalStance | suspension of judgment (epoché) ⓘ |
| philosophicalTheme |
critique of causal explanations
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critique of substance and essence ⓘ limits of human knowledge of nature ⓘ problem of criteria of truth ⓘ |
| positionInSeries | books 7–8 of Adversus Mathematicos ⓘ |
| preservationStatus | extant in manuscript tradition ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Against the Ethicists
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Against the Logicians NERFINISHED ⓘ Outlines of Pyrrhonism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| structure | argumentative treatise ⓘ |
| targetAudience | readers of philosophical and scientific doctrines ⓘ |
| timeOfComposition | late 2nd century CE ⓘ |
| tradition | Hellenistic philosophy ⓘ |
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