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Philosophical concept

Suspension of judgment

In Sextus’ Outlines, suspension of judgement is a mental standstill in which the skeptic neither denies nor affirms.

Works
26
Passages
2,879
Thinkers
11
Traditions
7

Understand uses of the concept

In Sextus’ Outlines, suspension of judgement is a mental standstill in which the skeptic neither denies nor affirms.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 2,879 passages across 26 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Ancient testimonia on Carneades, SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and Physics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: ἐποχή, epochē, suspension du jugement, suspension of judgment

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
  2. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 100 passages
  3. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  4. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  5. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  6. Lucullus, Book Two of the AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  7. Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by ArrianEpictetus · 0 passages
  8. The Interpretation of DreamsSigmund Freud · 0 passages
  9. Totem and TabooSigmund Freud · 0 passages
  10. Psychological TypesCarl Gustav Jung · 0 passages
  11. The Case of WagnerFriedrich Nietzsche · 0 passages
  12. The Birth of TragedyFriedrich Nietzsche · 0 passages
  13. The Gay ScienceFriedrich Nietzsche · 0 passages
  14. Ecce HomoFriedrich Nietzsche · 0 passages
  15. Beyond Good and EvilFriedrich Nietzsche · 0 passages
  16. Human, All Too Human IIFriedrich Nietzsche · 0 passages
  17. On the Genealogy of MoralityFriedrich Nietzsche · 0 passages
  18. On Stoic Self-ContradictionsPlutarch · 0 passages
  19. On the Face in the MoonPlutarch · 0 passages
  20. Against the Ethicists, Book XI of Against the LearnedSextus Empiricus · 257 passages
  21. Against the Logicians, Books VII-VIII of Against the LearnedSextus Empiricus · 927 passages
  22. Against the Physicists, Books IX-X of Against the LearnedSextus Empiricus · 791 passages
  23. Against the Professors, Books I-VI of Against the LearnedSextus Empiricus · 757 passages
  24. Outlines of PyrrhonismSextus Empiricus · 0 passages
  25. Ethics, Émile Saisset’s French TranslationBaruch Spinoza · 0 passages