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	Commentary on the Whole Bible (iv.v.xxvii)
		It seems, Agrippa was a scholar, and had been particularly conversant in the Jewish learning, was expert in the customs of the Jewish religion, and knew the nature of them, and that they were not designed to be either universal or perpetual.
		Agrippa was well versed in the scriptures of the Old-Testament, and therefore could make a better judgment upon the controversy between him and the Jews concerning Jesus being the Messiah than another could.
		Agrippa is so far from thinking him a madman that he thinks he never heard a man argue more strongly, nor talk more to the purpose.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/henry/mhc.iv.v.xxvii.html (8550 words)

	Agrippa I Definition / Agrippa I Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		His original name was Marcus Julius Agrippa, and he is mistakenly named Herod in the Acts of the Apostles The Acts of the Apostles (Greek Praxeis Apostolon) is a book of the Bible, which now stands fifth in the New Testament.
		Agrippa I is the Herod in "I, Claudius" where he is the friend of Caligula and Claudius.
		Agrippa I is the one who appears in the early part of Acts, and Herod Agrippa II meets with Paul in the later part of Acts.
	www.elresearch.com /Agrippa_I (401 words)

	Agrippa Definition / Agrippa Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Heinrich Cornelius AgrippaHeinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (born in Cologne September 14, 1486, died in Grenoble February 18, 1535) was a magician and occult writer, astrologer, and alchemist.
		Agrippa, a Greek astronomerAn astronomer or astrophysicist is a scientist whose area of research is astronomy or astrophysics.
		Agrippa is additionally a multimedia poemPoetry (ancient Greek: poieo = create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content.
	www.elresearch.com /Agrippa (1218 words)

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		Since the Sceptic accuses Heraclitus of having rashly dogmatised, presenting on the one hand the doctrine of 'conflagration' and on the other that 'contradictory predicates are in reality applicable to the same thing.'"[2] "It is absurd, then, to say that this conflicting school is a path to the sect with which it conflicts.
		In formulating Scepticism, and in advocating it against the many enemies of the School, and amidst all the excitement of the disruption from the Academy, and of establishing a new School, it was inevitable that his mind should take a dogmatic tendency.
		He remained a Sceptic as he had always been, but must have grown dogmatic in his attitude towards the Sceptical formulae, and was thus able to adopt some of the teachings of Heraclitus, unconscious of their inconsistency.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/1/7/5/5/17556/17556-8.txt (11977 words)

	PH29A Scepticism: ancient
		And the aim of sceptical argument need not be to arrive at any conclusion but rather to incline one to suspend judgment.
		Agrippa's trilemma shows that there are limits to our capacity to cite evidence; "the sceptic must take it for granted that no belief is responsibly held unless it rests on adequate and citable evidence" (p.
		Another way of putting Williams' point is that the sceptic assumes it is appropriate to challenge any claim at any time, without having a reason to challenge it in particular.
	www.uwichill.edu.bb /bnccde/PH29A/ph29ascepticismancient.htm (969 words)

	Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on the Bible
		We left Paul at the bar, and Festus, and Agrippa, and Bernice, and all the great men of the city of Caesarea, upon the bench, or about it, waiting to hear what he had to say for himself.
		King Agrippa, being more closely and particularly dealt with, thinks he never heard a man talk more rationally and convincingly, and owns himself almost his convert (v.
		Agrippa gave his judgment that he might have been set at liberty, if he had not himself appealed to Caesar (v.
	eword.gospelcom.net /comments/acts/mh/acts26.htm (8064 words)

	Aporetic World - Official Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		When Scepticism was revived and reorganized under the name of «Pyrrhonism» its main task was to challenge this assumption and to mantain, if not the impossibility of knowledge, at least the impossibility of positively affirming its possibility.
		We are told that he regarded the Sceptic system (Agoghé) as a road leading to the Heracleitean philosophy, on the ground that the (Sceptic) view that opposites apparently belong to the same object is prefatory to the (Heracleitean) view that they really so belong.
		We are told also that he held that the primary world-principle is air, which he identified with time and number; and that he explained the origin of the world in all its variety from this unitary substance by supposing it to be receptive of opposite qualities, and every whole self-identical in all its parts.
	www.aporeticworld.com /historicalsources (2527 words)

	Ancient Skepticism
		The five modes of Agrippa (whose date is unknown, though he is later than Aenesidemus) focus, as Barnes has shown, on some of the underlying epistemological concerns that motivate skeptical conclusions.
		We do not… take Sceptics to be undisturbed in every way — we say that they are disturbed by things which are forced upon them; for we agree that at times they shiver and are thirsty and have other feelings of this kind.
		Sceptics, who shed the additional opinion that each of these things is bad in its nature, come off more moderately even in these cases.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/skepticism-ancient (9235 words)

	Aporetic World - The THÉRMASMA Cultural Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		When Scepticism was revived and reorganized under the name of "Pyrrhonism" its main task was to challenge this assumption and to maintain, if not the impossibility of knowledge, at least the impossibility of positively affirming its possibility.
		Agrippa was followed by Zeuxippus, Zeuxis, and Antiochus, who remain mere names, though we may suppose that they adhered to the tradition of dialectical Scepticism.
		So, too, the Sceptics were in hopes of gaining quietude by means of a decision regarding the disparity of the objects of sense and of thought, and being unable to effect this they suspended judgment; and they found that quietude, as if by chance, followed upon their suspense, even as a shadow follows its substance.
	www.aporeticworld.com /thermasma/articles/retoric_and_skepticism.html (15748 words)

	AGRIPPA FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Menenius Agrippa, a Roman consul in 503 BC.
		Agrippa II, (AD 27–100), son of Agrippa I. Agrippa (c.
		Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552–1630), French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler.
	www.abusinessforme.com /Agrippa (151 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2000.10.15
		Elsewhere W. characterises the sceptic as 'the philosopher who has a propensity to see anomalies in things, who is puzzled about a great number of issues (both philosophical and everyday), who is aware of disagreement between ordinary people and well acquainted with controversies in the philosophical world' (31).
		W. now expands the scope of what the sceptic does not doubt and tries to exempt some beliefs from what has seemed so far to be a relentless tide of expanding suspension of judgement.
		W.'s sceptic is happy to say, for example, 'it is raining.' (54) 'Since this statement of his has no chance of being dogmatic, there is no reason for the sceptic to be particularly sceptical about it'.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2000/2000-10-15.html (2058 words)

	Agrippa I - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Agrippa I
		His real name was Marcus Julius Agrippa, erroneously called ‘Herod’ in the Bible.
		Grandson of Herod the Great, he was made tetrarch (governor) of Palestine by the Roman emperor Caligula and king by Emperor Claudius
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Agrippa+I (108 words)

	PH29A Foundationalism
		Having looked briefly at scepticism, old and new, and even more briefly at Williams' diagnostic approach to it, we shall now spend a little time on the two major types of direct response: foundationalist and coherentist theories of knowledge.
		The sceptic may concede that in practice we stop justification somewhere, but he will demand that the stopping place be unchallengeable, not merely unchallenged.
		But it is in any case pretty implausible as a response to scepticism, since it would have to say, not merely that in practice we take ourselves to know a good deal about things around us, but that these beliefs have a special intrinsic credibility.
	www.uwichill.edu.bb /bnccde/PH29A/ph29afoundatinalism.html (1869 words)

	Scepticism - Lecture 2
		This epochç, in turn, is achieved through a process of argument that leaves the sceptic unable, in the case of many propositions, unable to think of either that proposition or its contradictory as more plausible than the alternative.
		If on the other hand, the sceptic’s opponent tries to take as his starting-point something that is merely an undefended assumption (trope 4), then the sceptic will be equally worthy of credence if he makes the opposite assumption.
		And if the sceptic’s opponent argues in a circle, this is illegitimate (trope 5) because the argument intended to establish the truth of the proposition at issue depends for its effect on the assumption that this proposition can already be taken as true.
	www.webspawner.com /users/alanbailey/scepticismlectu.html (1496 words)

	sceptic - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Sceptic, sceptic : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
		Sceptic : Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology [home, info]
		Phrases that include sceptic: euro sceptic, agrippa the sceptic, greenhouse sceptic, nihilistic sceptic, rational sceptic
	www.onelook.com /?w=sceptic&ls=a (167 words)

	Diogenes Laertius: Life of Pyrrho, from Lives of the Philosophers, translated by C.D. Yonge
		And the Sceptics persevered in overthrowing all the dogmas of every sect, while they themselves asserted nothing dogmatically; and contented themselves with expressing the opinions of others, without affirming anything themselves, not even that they did affirm nothing; so that even discarded all positive denial; for to say, "We affirm nothing," was to affirm something.
		But the Sceptics say that they are mistaken; for they do not deny that they see, but that they do not know how it is that they see.
		The Sceptics reply to this, that in the presence of different appearances, they content themselves with saying that there are many appearances, and that it is precisely because things present themselves under different characters, that they affirm the existence of appearances.
	classicpersuasion.org /pw/diogenes/dlpyrrho.htm (5525 words)

	Ancient Greek Skepticism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Agrippa's Five Modes relies on the prevalence of dispute and repeats the main theme of Aenesidemus' Modes: we are frequently faced with dissenting opinions regarding the same matter and yet we have no adequate grounds on which to prefer one view over another.
		Burnyeat, M. (1984), 'The Sceptic in his Place and Time', in Rorty, Schneewind and Skinner, eds., Philosophy in History, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 225-54, reprinted in Burnyeat and Frede, eds.
		Frede, D. (1996) 'How Sceptical Were the Academic Sceptics?', in R.H. Popkin, ed., Scepticism in the History of Philosophy: A Pan-American Dialogue, 1-26, (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic).
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/s/skepanci.htm (11197 words)

	APOTHECARY'S DRAWER WEBLOG: March 2001
		Herod Agrippa, and Agrippa von Nettesheim) in Gibson's poem its literal meaning is the brand name of an old photographic album containing images of the author's father, grandfather and their contemporaries.
		The poem is autobiographical, descriptions of the images of these dead relatives leading on to Gibson's own recollections of the long-lost atmosphere of a small American town and his eventual departure to Toronto to avoid the Vietnam draft.
		Agrippa seems to me to be about memory, nostalgia, loss, mortality, and moments of passage; an intensely poignant poem that I think should be far better known outside Gibson's fanbase.
	www.raygirvan.co.uk /apoth/thought2.htm (3421 words)

	Teutonic Mythology by Viktor Rydberg
		The sceptic was an English ethnologist, by name Latham, who had spent many years in Russia studying the natives of that country.
		Latham was unwilling to admit that a single one of the many reasons given for the Asiatic origin of our family of languages was conclusive, or that the accumulative weight of all the reasons given amounted to real evidence.
		The last two, Europa and Agrippa, were simply added in order to make the number of Sibyllas equal to that of the prophets and the apostles.
	www.boudicca.de /teut.htm (17664 words)

	Agrippa the Sceptic
		Agrippa was a Sceptic philosopher who probably lived towards the end of the 1st century A.D. He is regarded as the author of the five tropes which are purported to establish the impossibility of certain knowledge.
		According to Sextus, they are attributed only "to the more recent skeptics" and it is by Diogenes Laertius that we attribute them to Agrippa.
		The Toils of Scepticism, Jonathan Barnes, Cambridge 1990.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/AgrippaTheSceptic.html (253 words)

	[EMLS 9.1 ([May, 2003]: 2.1-22 Elizabeth Cary's Mariam and the Critique of Pure Reason
		Drawing on her familiarity with the time-honoured sceptical tendency to question Stoic sententiousness - a tendency frequently displayed by Montaigne - Cary schools her audience to scrutinize the Chorus' habits of judgment and to cast doubt on its self-assured verdicts.
		Consequently, when the Chorus makes clear that Mariam is its sole target (3.3.249), we are inclined to question the validity of its allegations, especially the notion that Mariam has acted "out of glory" and desired to walk "on the ridge" when she had "spacious ground" on which to tread (3.3.246, 3.3.221-22).
		They are not ironic, but purposely inept, and they capitalize on a streak of wary, judicious scepticism that Cary subtly encourages in her readers and auditors.
	www.shu.ac.uk /emls/09-1/hamlcary.html (5866 words)

	Scepticism - Reading List (First Part)
		Particular emphasis will be placed on investigating the epistemological presuppositions that serve to make their arguments initially plausible, and an attempt will also be made to understand whether such wide-ranging arguments can ultimately be preserved from the dangers of self-refutation.
		The notion of a sceptical way of life will be another focus of attention, and the testimony of self-professed sceptics will be carefully examined in order to see what psychological and practical consequences might flow from a genuine repudiation of the idea that one belief can sometimes be better justified than another belief.
		7 Descartes’ methodological scepticism; doxastic voluntarism and constrained assent
	www.webspawner.com /users/alanbailey/rs.html (960 words)

	Skepticism
		Consequently, if the sceptic puts forth a hypothesis inconsistent with the hypothesis of common sense, then there is no burden of proof on either side ….
		Perhaps the most influential passage in the corpus of the Pyrrhonian literature is a section from PH entitled "Five Modes of Agrippa." Although the chapter title mentions five modes, two of them repeat those found elsewhere and are similar to the ones just discussed concerning perception.
		They are the modes of discrepancy and relativity and are important because they provide the background for understanding the description of the three modes concerning reasoning.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/skepticism (12569 words)

	Biographical Dictionary of Women and Pro-Feminists Men Mentioned on the Matilda Joslyn Gage Website
		Agrippa argued the absolute equality of men and women on the grounds of religious, moral, and natural rights.
		Agrippa used some of the same arguments that Christian de Pizan, a woman, had used a century earlier although he did not credit the ideas to her.
		Agrippa was not content with claiming woman's equality, but in a work of thirty chapters devoted himself to proving 'the superiority of woman.' "
	www.pinn.net /~sunshine/gage/features/dict.html (16700 words)

	The Authentication of the Turin Shroud
		A.D. 40 during a visit of the Jewish King Agrippa to Alexandria; a mock procession was staged with an idiot dressed in ragged royal purple and crowned with the base of a basket.
		Scientists share with most of the lay population a proper scepticism in the face of the unlikely.
		Bereft of technology and a professionalised scepticism, on which so much hangs, scientists are on the whole much like anyone else: reputation and status at stake in orthodoxy.
	www.shroud.com /meacham2.htm (19248 words)

	See The Tree?
		The agnostic does not know if the tree is there since he denies the ability of his senses to transmit information and denies the ability of his mind to understand the transmissions.
		He argued that it is dangerous to trust human studies, foolish to be proud of them, that all is dubious except god's word and that truth is accessible to men only by faith in Jesus Christ and the enlightening grace of the Holy Spirit.
		In philosophy there was the term "sceptic," and in relation to religion the term "Atheist" was ready to hand.
	www.atheists.org /Atheism/seethetree.html (12684 words)

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		Though an Occultist of many years’ standing, I am more sceptical in receiving evidence from paid mediums than many unbelievers.
		Owen as an able and reliable writer and trustworthy witness of the phenomena, who may henceforth be regarded as a doubted and ever-ridiculed visionary by sceptical wise-acres.
		We have bought this right with the prospect that all of us, whom Dr. Child has unwittingly or otherwise (time will prove it) fooled into belief in his Katie King, will become for a time the butts for end-less raillery, satires and jokes from the press and ignorant masses.
	www.phx-ult-lodge.org /Panarion.htm (10922 words)

	Sex and Character, by Otto Weininger
		The confusion of characterology with the doctrine of the soul has been a great misfortune, but because this has occurred in actual history, is no reason why it should continue.
		The absolute sceptic differs only in a word from the absolute dogmatist.
		The man who dogmatically accepts the position of absolute phenomenalism, believing it to relieve him of all the burdens of proof that the mere entering on another standpoint would itself entail, will be ready to dismiss without proof the existence which characterology posits, and which has nothing to do with a metaphysical "essence."
	www.theabsolute.net /ottow/sexcharh.html#manwoman (20657 words)

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