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Agrippa the Skeptic

Agrippa
Born1st century CE
EraHellenistic philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolPyrrhonism
Main interests
Epistemology
Notable ideas
The five modes of Agrippa
Agrippan trilemma

Agrippa (Greek: Ἀγρίππας) was a Pyrrhonist philosopher who probably lived towards the end of the 1st century CE.[1] He is regarded as the author of "The Five Tropes (or Modes, in Greek: τρόποι) of Agrippa", which are purported to establish the necessity of suspending judgment (epoché). Agrippa's arguments form the basis of the Agrippan trilemma.

  1. ^ Jowett, Benjamin (1867), "Agrippa (1)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 77

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