[8]
[1] _Hyp._ I. 169.
[2] _Hyp._ I. 170-171.
[3] _Adv. Math._ VIII. 185-186; VIII. 56; VII. 369.
[4] _Hyp._ I. 177.
[5] Hirzel _Op. cit._ p. 131.
[6] _Hyp._ I. 3, 7.
[7] _Hyp._ I. 227.
[8] See Index of Bekker's edition of Sextus' works.
We find here in the Sceptical School, shortly after the time of
Aenesidemus, the same tendency to dogmatic teaching that--so far
as the dim and shadowy history of the last years of the New
Academy can be unravelled, and the separation of Pyrrhonism can
be understood, at the time that the Academy passed over into
eclecticism--was one of the causes of that separation.
It is true that the Tropes of Agrippa show great progress in the
development of thought. They furnish an organisation of the
School far superior to what went before, placing the reasoning
on the firm basis of the laws of logic, and simplifying the
amount of material to be used. In a certain sense Saisset is
correct in saying that Agrippa contributed more than any other
in completing the organisation of Scepticism,[1] but it is not
correct when we consider the true spirit of Scepticism with
which the Tropes of Agrippa were not in harmony. It was through
the very progress shown in the production of these Tropes that
the school finally lost the strength of its position.
Not content with having reduced the number of the Tropes from
ten to five, others tried to limit the number still further to
two.
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