# Sextus Empiricus

- Id: `sextus_empiricus`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/sextus-empiricus/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `86fa0c29bd5f959ffed2f51f56269b269f11522667af8d930fd23489ee94a998`

## Summary

A physician and skeptical author, Sextus Empiricus suspended judgment when opposing arguments remained evenly matched.

## Overview

Conservative outer bound for an author usually placed in the second or early third century CE; exact dates and place remain unknown.

## Lifespan

```json
{
    "display": "2nd–3rd c. CE",
    "era": "Hellenistic and Roman era",
    "distance": "about 1,776–1,876 years ago",
    "age_at_death": null
}
```

## Intellectual tradition

```json
{
    "id": "skepticism",
    "name": "Skepticism",
    "detail": "Pyrrhonian skepticism",
    "labels": [
        "Skepticism",
        "Pyrrhonian skepticism"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "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

```json
{
    "works": 5,
    "passages": 2735,
    "languages": [
        "en",
        "fr",
        "grc"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 0
}
```

## Places

```json
[
    {
        "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/"
    }
]
```