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Pyrrhonism

//ˈpɪɹənɪz(ə)m// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The system of skeptical philosophy established by Pyrrho of Elis, centred on the idea that nothing can be known for certain; widespread skepticism, universal doubt. countable, uncountable

    "Whosoever shall imagine a perpetuall confession of ignorance, and a judgement upright and without staggering, to what occasion soever may chance; That man conceives the true Phyrrhonisme."

Etymology

From (the stem of) Latin Pyrrhō + -ism, after Middle French pyrrhonisme.

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