Sextus Empiricus: Against the Logicians

by Sextus Empiricus and Richard Bett

Book Overview

By far the most detailed surviving examination by any ancient Greek sceptic of epistemology and logic, this work critically reviews the pretensions of non-sceptical philosophers, to have discovered methods for determining the truth, either through direct observation or by inference from the observed to the unobserved. A fine example of the Pyrrhonist sceptical method at work, it also provides extensive information about the ideas of other Greek thinkers,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521531950
• ISBN13: 9780521531955
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"