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Ideas of Agrippa, by Text

[Greek, 20 - 80, Not known.]

60 fragments/reports
p.412 All discussion is full of uncertainty and contradiction (Mode 11) [Diog. Laertius]
p.412 All reasoning endlessly leads to further reasoning (Mode 12) [Diog. Laertius]
p.413 Proofs often presuppose the thing to be proved (Mode 15) [Diog. Laertius]
p.413 Reasoning needs arbitrary faith in preliminary hypotheses (Mode 14) [Diog. Laertius]
p.413 Everything is perceived in relation to another thing (Mode 13) [Diog. Laertius]
§2 p.205 Agrippa's Trilemma: justification is infinite, or ends arbitrarily, or is circular [Williams,M]