Pyrrho

American  

[pir-oh] / ˈpɪr oʊ /

noun

1. c365–c275 b.c., Greek philosopher.

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Pyrrho British  

/ ˈpɪrəʊ /

noun

1. ?365–?275 _bc , Greek philosopher; founder of scepticism. He maintained that true wisdom and happiness lie in suspension of judgment, since certain knowledge is impossible to attain

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Other Word Forms

• Pyrrhonism noun
• Pyrrhonist noun

Example Sentences

Sometimes they discussed philosophy; Hancock liked to quote Plato, Pyrrho and Buddhist thinkers.

From New York Times

More generally, the lack of interruptions by unanticipated visitors to my work space has allowed me, for the first time, to reach a state of internal tranquility, ataraxia, recommended more than two millennia ago by the ancient Greek philosophers Pyrrho and Epicurus.

From Scientific American

He had been brought up in a school where right and wrong were so frequently confounded for the purpose of maintaining the temporal dominion of the church that, at a very early period of his life, he had arrived at that conclusion, which the sceptical followers of Pyrrho arrive at by a more lengthened process, namely, that on earth there is no absolute and invariable right and wrong.

From Project Gutenberg

A hopeless tangle," she said at last, "from which our ruling philosophers, degenerate imitators of Pyrrho, offer but one escape.

From Project Gutenberg

Pyrrho: It is this: I intend to warn men against myself; I intend to confess all the defects of my character quite openly, and reveal to the world my hasty conclusions, my contradictions, and my foolish blunders.

From Project Gutenberg