Philosophical concept
Equipollence
For Sextus, equipollence is equal persuasive force between opposing arguments: neither prevails as more credible.
- Works
- 13
- Passages
- 2,756
- Thinkers
- 8
- Traditions
- 5
Understand uses of the concept
For Sextus, equipollence is equal persuasive force between opposing arguments: neither prevails as more credible.
In the current corpus, this annotation connects 2,756 passages across 13 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Ancient testimonia on Carneades. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.
Lexical variants: equipollence, équipollence, ἰσοσθένεια, equal force
Works where the concept is identified
- Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln · 0 passages
- Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
- Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
- SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 0 passages
- AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
- The EssaysMichel de Montaigne · 0 passages
- Against the Ethicists, Book XI of Against the LearnedSextus Empiricus · 257 passages
- Against the Logicians, Books VII-VIII of Against the LearnedSextus Empiricus · 927 passages
- Against the Physicists, Books IX-X of Against the LearnedSextus Empiricus · 791 passages
- Against the Professors, Books I-VI of Against the LearnedSextus Empiricus · 757 passages
- Outlines of PyrrhonismSextus Empiricus · 0 passages
- Summa TheologiaeThomas Aquinas · 0 passages