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                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="A"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="agrippa-bio-2" n="agrippa_2"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">Agrippa</surname></persName></head><p>(<persName xml:lang="grc"><surname full="yes">Ἀγρίππας</surname></persName>), a sceptical
      philosopher, only known to have lived later than Aenesidemus, the contemporary of Cicero, from
      whom he is said to have been the fifth in descent. He is quoted by Diogenes Laertius, who
      probably wrote about the time of M. Antoninus. The "five grounds of doubt" (<foreign xml:lang="grc">οἱ πέντε τρόποι</foreign>), which are given by Sextus Empiricus as a
      summary of the later scepticism, are ascribed by Diogenes Laertius (<bibl n="D. L. 9.88">9.88</bibl>) to Agrippa.</p><p>I. The first of these argues from the uncertainty of the rules of common life, and of the
      opinions of philosophers.</p><p>II. The second from the " rejectio ad infinitum :" all proof requires some further proof,
      and so on to infinity.</p><p>III. All things are changed as their relations become changed, or, as we look upon them in
      different points of view.</p><p>IV. The truth asserted is merely an hypothesis or, V. involves a vicious circle. (Sextus
      Empiricus, <hi rend="ital">Pyrrhon. Hypot.</hi> 1.15.)</p><p>With reference to these <foreign xml:lang="grc">πέντε τρόποι</foreign> it need only be
      remarked, that the first and third are a short summary of the ten original grounds of doubt
      which were the basis of the earlier scepticism. [<hi rend="smallcaps">PYRRHON.</hi>] The three
      additional ones shew a progress in the sceptical system, and a transition from the common
      objections derived from the fallilility of sense and opinion, to more abstract and
      metaphysical grounds of doubt. They seem to mark a new attempt to systematize the sceptical
      philosophy and adapt it to the spirit of a later age. (Ritter, <hi rend="ital">Geschichte der
       Philosophie,</hi> 12.4.) </p><byline>[<ref target="author.B.J">B.J</ref>]</byline></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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