Pyrrhonism

American  

[pir-uh-niz-uhm] / ˈpɪr əˌnɪz əm /

noun

1. the Skeptic doctrines of Pyrrho and his followers.

2. extreme or absolute skepticism.

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Other Word Forms

• Pyrrhonist noun
• Pyrrhonistic adjective

Etymology

Origin of Pyrrhonism

1660–70; < Greek Pýrrhōn Pyrrho + -ism

Example Sentences

At the theater, he bemoans the "limited talents, New World phonemes and intonations and slangy lapses, cecity towards the past, Pyrrhonism and so on of this weak cry of players."

From Time Magazine Archive

In India, also, Buddhism, as soon as it became a popular religion, had to speak a more human language than that of metaphysical Pyrrhonism.

From Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

Montaigne's is no limited Pyrrhonism, like that of Voltaire, Renan, or France.

From Pascal's Pensées by Pascal, Blaise

It leads to Pyrrhonism in science and philosophy, and indifferentism in religion.

From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Wallace, Robert

He was also to a great degree an ascetic, and he lived his philosophy, giving it thus a positive side wanting in the Pyrrhonism presented to us by Sextus.

From Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism by Patrick, Mary Mills