Adversus Physicos
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Adversus Physicos is a work by the ancient skeptic philosopher Sextus Empiricus that critically examines and challenges the claims of natural philosophers about the physical world.
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Target entity: Adversus Physicos Context triple: [Sextus Empiricus, hasWorkPart, Adversus Physicos]
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Breviloquium
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Divinae Institutiones
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Disputationes metaphysicae
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Tusculanae Disputationes
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Physiologia Stoicorum
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Target entity: Adversus Physicos Target entity description: Adversus Physicos is a work by the ancient skeptic philosopher Sextus Empiricus that critically examines and challenges the claims of natural philosophers about the physical world.
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A.
Breviloquium
Breviloquium is a concise theological handbook by the medieval Franciscan scholar Bonaventure that systematically summarizes key doctrines of Christian theology.
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B.
Divinae Institutiones
Divinae Institutiones is an early 4th-century Christian apologetic work by Lactantius that systematically presents and defends Christian doctrine to a Roman audience.
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C.
Disputationes metaphysicae
Disputationes metaphysicae is a seminal late 16th-century work of scholastic philosophy that systematically presents Francisco Suárez’s influential account of metaphysics, bridging medieval and early modern thought.
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D.
Tusculanae Disputationes
Tusculanae Disputationes is a series of philosophical dialogues by Cicero that explore themes such as death, pain, grief, and the pursuit of happiness from a Roman Stoic-influenced perspective.
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E.
Physiologia Stoicorum
Physiologia Stoicorum is a late 16th-century scholarly treatise by Justus Lipsius that systematically reconstructs and interprets ancient Stoic philosophy, especially its physics and theology, for early modern readers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
ancient Greek philosophical text
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philosophical work ⓘ skeptical treatise ⓘ |
| aim | to suspend judgment about claims concerning the physical world ⓘ |
| approximateDate | 2nd century CE ⓘ |
| associatedWork |
Adversus Mathematicos
NERFINISHED
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Outlines of Pyrrhonism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Sextus Empiricus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralConcept |
equipollence of arguments about nature
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unreliability of theoretical explanations of the physical world ⓘ |
| critiques |
Epicurean physics
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Peripatetic physics ⓘ Stoic physics ⓘ dogmatic natural philosophers ⓘ |
| genre |
critical commentary on natural philosophy
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philosophical polemic ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Hellenistic philosophy ⓘ |
| influenced |
David Hume
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early modern philosophy of science ⓘ later skeptical philosophy ⓘ modern interpretations of Pyrrhonism ⓘ |
| method |
setting arguments in opposition
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skeptical argumentation ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| philosophicalGoal | ataraxia regarding beliefs about nature ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool | ancient skepticism ⓘ |
| philosophicalTheme |
critique of causal explanation
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critique of cosmology ⓘ critique of theories of cause ⓘ critique of theories of elements ⓘ critique of theories of motion ⓘ critique of theories of place ⓘ critique of theories of time ⓘ limits of human knowledge of nature ⓘ suspension of judgment (epochē) ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition | Pyrrhonism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| preservedIn | medieval manuscript tradition ⓘ |
| region | Roman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
classics
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history of philosophy ⓘ history of science ⓘ |
| subject |
epistemology
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natural philosophy ⓘ physics in ancient philosophy ⓘ skepticism about nature ⓘ |
| titleInLatin | Adversus Physicos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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