Academic skepticism

In Hellenistic philosophy, epoché (also epoche; pronounced or ) is suspension of judgment but also "withholding of assent".

period circa 266—90 BCE investigating the possibilities of certainty in all knowledge

Acatalepsy (from the Greek and ), in philosophy, is incomprehensibleness, or the impossibility of comprehending or conceiving some or all things. The doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.

argument that the act of dreaming provides preliminary evidence that the senses should not be fully truste

In theology and philosophy, probabilism (from Latin probare, to test, approve) is an ancient Greek doctrine of academic skepticism. It holds that in the absence of certainty, plausibility or truth-likeness is the best criterion. The term can also refer to a 17th-century religious thesis about ethics, or a modern physical–philosophical thesis.

ethical thought experiment proposed by Carneades of Cyrene: after shipwreck, A is on a plank that can only support 1 person; when B tries to cling on, A pushes him away; is A guilty?