Adversus Physicos

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Adversus Physicos is a work by the ancient skeptic philosopher Sextus Empiricus that critically examines and challenges the claims of natural philosophers about the physical world.

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instanceOf ancient Greek philosophical text
philosophical work
skeptical treatise
aim to suspend judgment about claims concerning the physical world
approximateDate 2nd century CE
associatedWork Adversus Mathematicos
Outlines of Pyrrhonism
author Sextus Empiricus
centralConcept equipollence of arguments about nature
unreliability of theoretical explanations of the physical world
critiques Epicurean physics
Peripatetic physics
Stoic physics
dogmatic natural philosophers
genre critical commentary on natural philosophy
philosophical polemic
historicalPeriod Hellenistic philosophy
influenced David Hume
early modern philosophy of science
later skeptical philosophy
modern interpretations of Pyrrhonism
method setting arguments in opposition
skeptical argumentation
originalLanguage Ancient Greek
philosophicalGoal ataraxia regarding beliefs about nature
philosophicalSchool ancient skepticism
philosophicalTheme critique of causal explanation
critique of cosmology
critique of theories of cause
critique of theories of elements
critique of theories of motion
critique of theories of place
critique of theories of time
limits of human knowledge of nature
suspension of judgment (epochē)
philosophicalTradition Pyrrhonism
preservedIn medieval manuscript tradition
region Roman Empire
studiedIn classics
history of philosophy
history of science
subject epistemology
natural philosophy
physics in ancient philosophy
skepticism about nature
titleInLatin Adversus Physicos

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Sextus Empiricus hasWorkPart Adversus Physicos
Against the Physicists alsoKnownAs Adversus Physicos
Adversus Logicos relatedWork Adversus Physicos
Adversus Physicos titleInLatin Adversus Physicos
Adversus Grammaticos relatedWork Adversus Physicos