Question
David Coward’s 2023 translation of a philosopher is titled for this question, which also names a French equivalent to Oxford’s Very Short Introductions series. For 10 points each:
[10h] Identify this four-word question engraved with a set of scales on a medal whose reverse read “Epecho,” (“ay-PAY-koh”) or “I abstain.” First posed in the “Apology for Raymond Sebond,” this motto summarized Michel de Montaigne’s (“mee-SHELL duh mon-TEN-yuh’s”) Pyrrhonism.
ANSWER: “What do I know?” [accept “Que sais-je?” or “Que sçay-je?”]
[10e] Pyrrhonism was a form of this position that sought ataraxia via epoche, or a suspension of judgment. This position questions the possibility of knowledge.
ANSWER: skepticism [or word forms like skeptic or skeptical]
[10m] Richard Popkin links the “Pyrrhonian Crisis” of thinkers like Montaigne to their reading of this Greek thinker’s Outlines of Pyrrhonism. This Roman empire era skeptic also wrote the tracts Against the Logicians and Against the Mathematicians.
ANSWER: Sextus Empiricus [or Sextus Empiricus]
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Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 6.00 | 40% | 20% | 0% |
Data
| Waterloo Aspidistra | Waterloo Basic | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |