Against the Logicians

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Against the Logicians is an influential work of ancient Pyrrhonian skepticism by Sextus Empiricus that critically examines and challenges the foundations of logical theory and dogmatic reasoning.

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instanceOf ancient Greek philosophical text
philosophical work
skeptical treatise
addresses nature of logical consequence
status of logical principles as criteria of truth
validity of inference
aimsAt suspension of judgment
alsoKnownAs Adversus Logicos
Pros Logikous
associatedWith Hellenistic philosophy
author Sextus Empiricus
circulatedAs part of the larger work Adversus Mathematicos
context Roman Imperial period
critiques Aristotelian logic
Stoic logic
criteria of truth
dogmatic epistemology
notions of proof
focusesOn critique of dogmatic reasoning
critique of logical theory
genre epistemological treatise
philosophical criticism
hasInfluenceOn debates about the possibility of certain knowledge
interpretations of ancient logic
influenced contemporary discussions of skepticism
early modern philosophy
later skeptical philosophy
intendedAudience dogmatic philosophers
students of philosophy
language Ancient Greek
mainTopic dogmatism
epistemology
logic
skepticism
partOf Adversus Mathematicos
philosophicalGoal undermining dogmatic confidence in logic
philosophicalMethod argumentative refutation
skeptical tropes
philosophicalPosition suspension of assent regarding logical principles
philosophicalSchool Skepticism
preservedIn manuscript tradition of Sextus Empiricus
studiedIn ancient philosophy courses
history of logic
history of skepticism
timePeriod 2nd century CE
tradition Pyrrhonian skepticism
workOf Sextus Empiricus corpus
linked to: Sextus Empiricus

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Sextus Empiricus notableWork Against the Logicians
Against the Physicists relatedWork Against the Logicians
Against the Ethicists relatedWork Against the Logicians
Adversus Logicos alsoKnownAs Against the Logicians