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Ideas for 'works', 'In Defense of Essentialism' and 'Posterior Analytics'

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13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 2. Justification Challenges / a. Agrippa's trilemma

1671	Sceptics say justification is an infinite regress, or it stops at the unknowable [Aristotle]
	Full Idea: Sceptics say that there is either an infinite regress of ideas based on one another, or things come to a stop at primitives which are unknowable (because they can't be demonstrated).
	From: Aristotle (Posterior Analytics [c.327 BCE], 72b09)
	A reaction: This is one strand of what eventually becomes the classic Agrippa's Trilemma (Idea 8850). For Aristotle's view on this one, see Idea 562.