Aenesidemus
Aenesidemus
10 modes or tropes of skepticism
1. feeling and perceptions of all living beings differ
2. People have physical and mental difference which make things appear different to them
3. Different senses give different impressions of things
4. Our perceptions depend on our physical and intellectual conditions at the time
5. Things appear different in different positions and at different distances
6. Perception is never direct but always through a medium
7. Things appear different according to their quantity, color, motion, and temperature
8. A thing impresses us differently when it is familiar and when it is unfamiliar
9. All supposed knowledge is a predication, which give us only the relation of things to other things or to ourselves,
never what the thing is itself
10. The opinions and customs of people are different in different countries
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