Pyrrhonism

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pyrrhonism \Pyr"rho*nism\, n. [From Pyrrho, the founder of a
     school of skeptics in Greece (about 300 b. c.): cf. F.
     pyrrhonisme.]
     Skepticism; universal doubt.
     [1913 Webster]



From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  PYRRHONISM, n.  An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor.  It
  consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism.  Its
  modern professors have added that.
  
  
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