Pyrrhonism, the epistemology of disagreement, the nature of rationality. Machuca, D. (2022). Pyrrhonism Past and Present: Inquiry, Disagreement, Self-Knowledge, and Rationality. Cham: Springer.

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Sextus Empiricus, Agrippa's trilemma, abstention, deflationary rationalism, normativity, tropes of skepticism, variational induction

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Review of Machuca, D. (2022). Pyrrhonism Past and Present: Inquiry, Disagreement, Self-Knowledge, and Rationality. Cham: Springer.

 

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Oleksandr Lukovyna, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine)

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Lukovyna, O. (2026). Pyrrhonism, the epistemology of disagreement, the nature of rationality. Machuca, D. (2022). Pyrrhonism Past and Present: Inquiry, Disagreement, Self-Knowledge, and Rationality. Cham: Springer. Sententiae, 45(1), 159–172. https://doi.org/10.31649/sent45.01.159

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