He is most consistent, sure-footed and passionate in his celebration of prudence, practical reasoning, and good old-fashioned English probabilism and empiricism.
While probabilism in empirical matters was defended as reasonable by skeptics, such an attitude was considered unreasonable with regard to metaphysics.
Throughout his experiment in skepticism and probabilism, he struggles against the invincible ignorance that impedes his certainty.
It gave rise to a form of probabilism, as a positively endorsed theory of knowledge, which is one of the New Academy's legacies.
Definition of probabilism in US English:
probabilism
nounˈpräbəbəˌlizəmˈprɑbəbəˌlɪzəm
See probabilistic
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It gave rise to a form of probabilism, as a positively endorsed theory of knowledge, which is one of the New Academy's legacies.
He is most consistent, sure-footed and passionate in his celebration of prudence, practical reasoning, and good old-fashioned English probabilism and empiricism.
While probabilism in empirical matters was defended as reasonable by skeptics, such an attitude was considered unreasonable with regard to metaphysics.
Throughout his experiment in skepticism and probabilism, he struggles against the invincible ignorance that impedes his certainty.