Sextus Empiricus and Total Skepticism
In the Hellenistic and Roman periods after Plato, there were two kinds of Skeptics, and they were something like rivals: the Academics and the Pyrrhonists (stemming from Pyrrho of Elis, c. 360 – 270 B.C.). Sextus Empiricus was the last great Pyrrhonist. The Academics, according to Sextus, maintained that “all things are inapprehensible,” whereas the…