Episode #013 ... The Hellenistic Age Pt. 4 - Skepticism
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The Skeptics Suspend Judgment
The stoics say you should suspend judgment on everything until you're absolutely certain. The sceptics would say that, even despite all this checking that you've done, you can't know that for sure. This is probably a good time to talk about the man who's widely considered to be the first sceptic in the history of the world, pyro. Thereare stories of him getting surgery in 300 b c and being unaffected by it. He just lied in silence, without so much as a twitch on his face when someone dug into him and performed surgery on him. Despite these stories, he lived to the very old age of ninety-five. These stories are obviously fiction, but they
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