Adversus Logicos

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Adversus Logicos is a work by the ancient skeptic philosopher Sextus Empiricus that critically examines and challenges the foundations of logical theory.

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instanceOf ancient Greek philosophical text
philosophical work
aim to criticize dogmatic logic
alsoKnownAs Against the Logicians NERFINISHED
Against the Logicians (Sextus Empiricus) NERFINISHED
associatedWith Sextus Empiricus NERFINISHED
author Sextus Empiricus NERFINISHED
criticizes claims of logical necessity
dogmatic philosophers
critiques Aristotelian logic
Stoic logic
focusesOn criteria of truth
logical inference
proof and demonstration
genre philosophical treatise
historicalContext Roman Imperial period
influenced early modern philosophy of skepticism
later skeptical philosophy
intendedEffect suspension of judgment about logical doctrines
language Ancient Greek
mainTopic logic
skepticism
movement Hellenistic philosophy
partOf Adversus Mathematicos NERFINISHED
philosophicalDomain epistemology
logic
philosophicalGoal ataraxia through suspension of judgment about logic
philosophicalStance skeptical critique of logic
philosophicalTradition Pyrrhonian skepticism
preservedIn manuscript tradition of Sextus Empiricus
questions possibility of certain knowledge through logic
relatedWork Adversus Ethicos NERFINISHED
Adversus Physicos NERFINISHED
Outlines of Pyrrhonism NERFINISHED
subject foundations of logical theory
timePeriod 2nd century CE
tradition Pyrrhonism NERFINISHED
usesMethod mode of opposition (trope) against logical theses
skeptical argumentation
workType polemical work

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