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SCEPTIC. 



up with size, the design being first made in a sketch, which is accu- 

 tely laid down to scale, and from which the perspective outlines are 

 transferred to the larger surface. Instead of beginning with de^d 



""^ " P Ws ***%' the ^ puttin 

 fresc o-P a inng>-the full tone of the lights 



SCEPTICISM. 



explanation of phenomena ; he ot h e ; th 

 certain class of philosophers who 

 of thought in its fundaS 

 latter we alone direct oureelves 



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preolse lnd 'ati<m of a 



lticS ' whose s y sten ' 

 sceptical. To this 



Socrates has been commonly called the found-, t . 

 nunciation of his famous tenet -all L k thls sect b y the 



othing. But this was WM ** he knew 



h of the effect of scenery depends upon a skilful mode of lieht- 

 ;h respect considerable improvements have taken place 

 te years, and the light is now occasionally thrown from above a 



trivant^in at^T "^ -^ f t - li htB ' colo ^ d glass anTother con^ 



i^tlir" 10 !!- "T 6 'a deed . bee brou g ht to greaMr : fe^tio" e 8 C o a M'to 

 inutate particular eBects in the most deceptive manner such as thos 

 wnlwht. where the monn K,V. *K u the c , ou ' da Md , 1 ^ 



ene -a 



nothing. But this was more li m n 

 Dogmatists and Sophists, " 



understanding, than any 



embraced by Pyrrh 



. 



opmions of his own, yet we 

 him the merit of having ^ 

 tercommunion of dialectics, 



with 

 l lthe 

 ^ and 



, 



Confidelloe <* the 

 thehuma 

 , l M was sub - 



' i 8 P ecllla tive 



** '" aWardin S *" 

 ( " the in " 



Though looked upon as a very subordinate branch of the pictorial 



tr iusTfS^^SSSS.f'f^ 



from an established religion, 





it 



. Common usage i. here, as is usually the caaTwronK To 



l*l,,ve . .thing or dUbeliere it (that is.^Le wn^thing eUe" hi ch H 

 coDtra,l,ct.,ry), or mu e t oscillAte-one moment believing thisS and 

 the next believing another thing. If then this SS3fl.b.b2fc 

 mind-J we have rightly demarcated doubt from disWl^f 

 erroneoua apphcat.on of septic in common usage will 



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Kunoh 



guage , but nothing can be more erroneoui. An unbeliever in 



id m,ght turn round upon the orthodox believer with the 



rucer, Instit. Philos./ uc 14 .fta n ' C nUSe - 

 system of indifference SSaTbSLiw e uflTv cHffi^ 7 deduced ft 





by means of soinptliiiicr i, , r unknown or known 



^.@SsT=B!SSS%^ 



PYRBHO, in Bioo. Drv.J tlleir te net. 



>f modern scepticism it is remarkable, i 



clencmng subtle arguments occurred to a 







. M,,t men begin, 

 ,d M d in believingve 

 eny preerved the character of IWpSo 

 the OK* celebrated in the hirtory of philo^phy. P 



(on the excellent and flr un 

 known), a rare and extraordinary work 

 argument* of the sceptics propounded in ' 

 sweeping 



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