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[filed under theme 2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason ]

Full Idea

Eleventh mode: all topics of discussion are full of uncertainty and contradiction.

Clarification

One of the 'modes of scepticism'

Gist of Idea

All discussion is full of uncertainty and contradiction (Mode 11)

Source

report of Agrippa (fragments/reports [c.60]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 09.Py.10

Book Ref

Diogenes Laertius: 'Diogenes Laertius', ed/tr. Yonge,C.D. [Henry G. Bohn 1853], p.412