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Philosophical concept

Academic skepticism

Academic skepticism challenges certainty about impressions while preserving action guided by what is probable.

Works
147
Passages
2,315
Thinkers
36
Traditions
14

Understand uses of the concept

Academic skepticism challenges certainty about impressions while preserving action guided by what is probable.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 2,315 passages across 147 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical Discourses. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: académicien, academic, sceptic, skeptic, suspend, assensionem, adsensionem

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln · 0 passages
  2. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
  3. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  4. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 100 passages
  5. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  6. SVF III: Chrysippus on EthicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  7. AcademicaCicero · 71 passages
  8. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  9. Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 0 passages
  10. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  11. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  12. Letters to QuintusCicero · 0 passages
  13. Lucullus, Book Two of the AcademicaCicero · 148 passages
  14. On DivinationCicero · 285 passages
  15. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  16. On EndsCicero · 444 passages
  17. On FateCicero · 4 passages
  18. On FriendshipCicero · 0 passages
  19. On Old AgeCicero · 0 passages
  20. On the OratorCicero · 0 passages
  21. On the Nature of the GodsCicero · 388 passages
  22. On the RepublicCicero · 0 passages
  23. PhilippicsCicero · 0 passages
  24. Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
  25. Pearson: Cleanthes fragmentsCleanthes · 0 passages
  26. The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ)Confucius · 0 passages
  27. Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book VI: The Cynics, by Diogenes LaertiusDiogenes Laertius · 0 passages
  28. Relativity: The Special and General Theory, English TranslationAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  29. The Born-Einstein Letters: Einstein’s LettersAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  30. The World As I See ItAlbert Einstein · 0 passages