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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

work he belonged to the " methodical " school (see See also:

ASCLEPIADES

ASCLEPIADES), as a philosopher, he is the greatest of the later See also:

Greek Sceptics. His claim to See also:

EMINENCE (Lat. eminentia)

eminence rests on the facts that he See also:

DEVELOPED

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

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, GOTTFRIED HEINRICH, COUNT OF (1594—1632)

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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