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Single Idea 1813

[from 'fragments/reports' by Agrippa, in 2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason ]

Full Idea

Twelfth mode: all reasoning leads on to further reasoning, and this process goes on forever.

Clarification

One of the 'modes of scepticism'

Gist of Idea

All reasoning endlessly leads to further reasoning (Mode 12)

Source

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

Book Reference

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