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>> No.13601514 [View]
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>we note things only by their appearances
>appearances are relative in terms of the observer (senses, state of mind, feeling etc), object (distance, physical state, surroundings etc) and admixture of both
>hence everything appears/is relative

Why are skeptics so based?

>> No.13595974 [View]
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>stoics: just follow nature bro
>pyrrhonists: different animals and even different persons have different sensory capabilities therefore we cannot understand the nature of a thing, but mere its appearance according to the observer

Did stoics ever recover?

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13589990

> BTFOs stoics and epicurists
> BTFOs 90% of all modern philosophers beforehand
>invented the cope meme
>radical centrist

Why is pyrrhonism underrated?

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>>12709999
Pyrrhonism

>btfo literally everyone
>have ataraxia follow you like a shadow follows a body

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