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SEXTUS EMPIRICUS (2nd1and 3rd centuries A.D.) , physician and philosopher, lived at See also:Alexandria and at See also:Athens . In his medical See also:work he belonged to the " methodical " school (see See also:ASCLEPIADES), as a philosopher, he is the greatest of the later See also:Greek Sceptics . His claim to See also:eminence rests on the facts that he See also:developed and formulated the doctrines of the older Sceptics, and that he handed down a full and, on the whole, an impartial See also:account of the members of his school . His See also:works are two, the Pyrrhonian Hypotyposes and Against the Mathematici (ed . See also:Fabricius, See also:Paris, 1621, and See also:Bekker, See also:Berlin, 1842) . See Brochard, See also:Les Sceptiques grecs (1887); See also:Pappenheim, Lebensverhdltnisse See also:des Sextus Empiricus (Berlin, 1875); Jourdain, Sextus Empiricus (Paris, 1858) ; See also:Patrick, Sextus Empiricus and the Greek Sceptics (1899, with trans. of Pyrrh . Hyp. i.); also SCEPTI- cISM . |
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