At the conclusion of one of his works, this thinker analogized his method to a man who uses a ladder to ascend to a high place, after which he kicks the ladder away, suggesting that after achieving its task the method could be discarded.
At the conclusion of one of his works, this thinker analogized his method to a man who uses a ladder to ascend to a high place, after which he kicks the ladder away, suggesting that after achieving its task the method could be discarded. Writing about this thinker, Roderick Chisholm argued that this thinker's most important contribution was a theory of signs which rejected the "indicative" sign but defended the "recollective" or "commemorative" sign. This non-Husserl thinker integrated the Ten Modes of Aenesidemus, intended to show how epoche could be achieved, into his major work, which also discusses various phrases such as "No more" and "Nothing should be determined" as manifestations of a certain attitude. In that work, this author of volumes collected as Against the Professors, divided philosophers into three types: "Academics" who have "asserted things that cannot be apprehended," "Dogmatists" such as Epicurus and the Stoics, "who think they have discovered truth," and those who are "still investigating," such as himself. For 10 points, identify this Greek philosopher most famous for his exposition of Pyrrhonian thought titled Outlines of Skepticism.
At the conclusion of one of his works, this thinker analogized his method to a man who uses a ladder to ascend to a high place, after which he kicks the ladder away, suggesting that after achieving its task the method could be discarded.
Sextus Empiricus