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    "id": "sextus_empiricus",
    "canonical_url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/sextus-empiricus/",
    "language": "en",
    "title": "Sextus Empiricus",
    "editorial_status": "available",
    "summary": "A physician and skeptical author, Sextus Empiricus suspended judgment when opposing arguments remained evenly matched.",
    "body": "Conservative outer bound for an author usually placed in the second or early third century CE; exact dates and place remain unknown.",
    "lifespan": {
        "display": "2nd–3rd c. CE",
        "era": "Hellenistic and Roman era",
        "distance": "about 1,776–1,876 years ago",
        "age_at_death": null
    },
    "intellectual_tradition": {
        "id": "skepticism",
        "name": "Skepticism",
        "detail": "Pyrrhonian skepticism",
        "labels": [
            "Skepticism",
            "Pyrrhonian skepticism"
        ]
    },
    "historical_cutoff": {
        "year": 250,
        "display": "250 CE",
        "reason": "Conservative outer bound for an author usually placed in the second or early third century CE; exact dates and place remain unknown."
    },
    "statistics": {
        "works": 5,
        "passages": 2735,
        "languages": [
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            "grc"
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        "intellectual_exposures": 2,
        "typed_relationships": 0
    },
    "attested_thinker_encounters": [],
    "places": [
        {
            "name": "Alexandria?",
            "period": "2nd-3rd century CE",
            "description": "A possible association in modern reconstructions; not securely established.",
            "confidence": "D",
            "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sextus-empiricus/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Rome?",
            "period": "2nd-3rd century CE",
            "description": "Another proposed context; the biography remains exceptionally uncertain.",
            "confidence": "D",
            "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sextus-empiricus/"
        }
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