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Single Idea 1815

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

Full Idea

Fourteenth mode: reasoning requires arbitrary faith in preliminary hypotheses.

Clarification

One of the 'modes of scepticism'

Gist of Idea

Reasoning needs arbitrary faith in preliminary hypotheses (Mode 14)

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.413