24) Pyrrhonic Skepticism

[@Yokitheanimator]

Thanks for sharing. I am a housewife from the Philippines. And it is great to be able to learn Philosophy in your class.

[@tangerinesarebetterthanora7060]

I imagine what life would be like if I were a housewife in the Philippines. Life is crazy.

[@jvolstad]

I'm taking Philosophy (Ethics) this semester. Very interesting. My major is Mathematics, and Philosophy is an elective for me. I'm a non-traditional student, 69-years-old. 😱

[@lesliesansom7439]

Hi! I'm a student in Texas taking Philosophy 1301. I found this lecture because my professor does not do zoom meetings / any lectures. I have agreed with Pyrrhonic Skepticism over Academic Skepticism and from the discussion posts, I tend to stand alone on this perspective. I'm writing my essay for my midterm debating my beliefs and showing how the statement Academics make claiming, "Nobody knows anything" to be so contradicting! How do they *know* nobody knows anything, if nobody knows anything?! No one has brought up this view point in my class and it is the back-bone to my essay. Glad to see someone else with the same point of view. I wish I could be one of your students! Thank you for this video it helped me validate my opinion and learn way more than I would have from my class!

[@Z0mb13ta11ahase]

The only thing I am sure of is this sentence.

[@jeffblackard9753]

I would argue that it’s dangerous to embrace any philosophy other than skepticism in regards to life. Happy to debate that with anyone.

[@Torbu6286]

I'd agree

[@kirid5773]

Choose a subject and form an opinion, yet remember you are very likely wrong. It could be the most solid or flimsy, offensive or mainstream, accepted or unpopular stance, reason does not matter, only process. Talk to multiple people that agree and disagree with you, always push against them; this produces the strongest arguments for or against. Remain open and listen. Repeat till death. A devil's advocate argues to be argumentative, a skeptic argues to be proven wrong.

[@humesspork5425]

Thank you for posting these videos! I enjoy watching your lectures and I learn a great deal of philosophy.

[@1DangerMouse1]

Thanks for sharing this. I've had some similar issues with Pyrrhonism. I also learned some new ways to look at it.

[@bougal777]

Awesome course you put together Adam! I look forward to watching the modern philosophy lectures. Thank you!

[@wadematthews3442]

Reviewing Sextus discussions of evident, non-evident and pre-evident can impact the concerns of "Marker...Not Marker" etc

[@super-dude-]

Great lecture, thanks.

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Thank you for this lecture!

[@kloymusic]

Amazing lecture

[@stpkopp]

Great course! Thanks for posting it on KZbin!

[@justinlevy274]

The phrase 'I know no one has knowledge' should be reformulated as 'there are no convincing reasons that people have knowledge.' People make this mistake with atheism by saying "there is no god' versus 'I do not believe in god.' It is not a positive belief in a negative but rather a negative belief in a positive.

[@jvolstad]

When I get my morning Starbucks tomorrow, I am going to say to the Barista, "I don't believe this is coffee, but I will say that it looks like coffee. "

[@zauberkeit1234]

Can I ask, what edition of "Outlines" do you use?

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This was an excellent lecture!! Subscribed

[@_VISION.]

40:31 maybe the curiosity leads you to suspend judgement. Perhaps curiosity should really be awareness? Maybe it's about always collecting perspectives?

[@pinosantilli8297]

Or maybe the skeptic is "open minded"? Good quality to have.

[@anandvaidya7070]

At 52.31 It's gandhi my dear!

[@dismian7]

I consider myself a Pyrrhonist. Yet, I think I am confused about existence and nothing. Could it be that nothing exists at all? Some will try to explain with means of logic that there must be something by definition. I think this is where my thoughts break and I think I should be certain that there must be something. I see no reason how there could be nothing. Yet then again, maybe I there is a reason I simply haven't thought of? So still I do not believe that there must at least be something.

[@ながれる季節]

The fact that you are thinking is indubitable. I don't think you can be thinking without something material supporting that function.

[@americanpyrrho977]

This is an important point, and one which is supported both by Pyrrhonian thought and by, of all things, Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem. Here's how it played out in the skeptical treatment: The disagreement between opposing logical statements leads to a final assessment that, "Everything is indeterminate." But, if this is a true statement, then its truth applies to that statement also, so that the indeterminacy of indeterminacy is also true. This is why Pyrrhonians are not "Academics" who believe that ultimate truth is unknowable. Pyrrhonians go on searching, but suspend judgment on non-evident questions. Kurt Gödel has shown that such contradictions were possible in math, such that there are mathematical truths that cannot be proven, because to prove them would require a logical contradiction. If you are interested, see kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWXRlXx6mKmGfcU Another example of this idea is in a statement like "All writing is wrong," - a statement which, because it is written, means that it too is wrong, and therefore the statement, "The statement that 'All writing is wrong," is wrong," is also logically possible. Pyrrhonian's actually have very little to say about "what is," outside of self-reporting things obvious and evident to them. Outside of these self-reports, all generalizable statements about truth or morality are subject to dialectal treatment.

[@saimbhat6243]

You have gone too far. Almost everything exists. Just pinch yourself. Your radical conclusion stems from your definition of what exists. Going hard skeptic way is exhausting. This is not a dream, nor an evil demon tricking you nor illusion nor a simulation neither are you sleeping in a vat.

[@americanpyrrho977]

ah-hem. "Pyrrhonic" is not the preferred nomenclature. "Pyrrhonian," please.

[@pinosantilli8297]

Maybe all we need to know about the Universe is HOW it works and NOT why it works? Or WHY its even there?

[@_VISION.]

Maybe not how it works but what works in the universe seems like a better question to me

[@Silvertestrun]

Ty

[@Lyn_Cole]

Dried pears? Who hurt you?

[@thepyrrhonist6152]

I’m only posting because of my handle.

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