{"id":11630,"date":"2010-05-03T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T09:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/05\/03\/the-characteristic-attitude-of-the-pyrrhonist\/"},"modified":"2010-05-03T09:00:56","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T09:00:56","slug":"the-characteristic-attitude-of-the-pyrrhonist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/05\/03\/the-characteristic-attitude-of-the-pyrrhonist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Characteristic Attitude of the Pyrrhonist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Benson Mates, <strong>The Skeptic Way<\/strong>, Oxford UP, 1996, p. 5: &quot;. . . the characteristic attitude of the Pyrrhonists is one of <em>aporia<\/em>, of being at a a loss, puzzled, stumped, stymied.&quot;&#0160; Aporia is not doubt.&#0160; Doubt implies understanding, but aporia is a lack of understanding.&#0160; The modern skeptic may doubt, but&#0160;not the ancient skeptic.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Connected with this is a distinction between <strong>epoch\u00e9 <\/strong>as the withholding of assent and suspension of judgment. One can withhold assent from an assertion without granting that it makes sense; but if one suspends judgment then one has a clear propositional sense before one&#39;s mind which one neither affirms nor denies.&#0160; See Mates, p. 32.&#0160; A good distinction!&#0160; Add it to the list.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">So, strictly speaking, <em>aporia<\/em> is not doubt and <strong>epoch\u00e9<\/strong> is not suspension of judgment.&#0160; Close but not the same.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benson Mates, The Skeptic Way, Oxford UP, 1996, p. 5: &quot;. . . the characteristic attitude of the Pyrrhonists is one of aporia, of being at a a loss, puzzled, stumped, stymied.&quot;&#0160; Aporia is not doubt.&#0160; Doubt implies understanding, but aporia is a lack of understanding.&#0160; The modern skeptic may doubt, but&#0160;not the ancient skeptic. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/05\/03\/the-characteristic-attitude-of-the-pyrrhonist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Characteristic Attitude of the Pyrrhonist&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-skepticism","category-skepticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}