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English
Etymology
From (the stem of) Latin Pyrrhō + -ism, after Middle French pyrrhonisme.
Pronunciation
Noun
Pyrrhonism (countable and uncountable, plural Pyrrhonisms)
- The system of skeptical philosophy established by Pyrrho of Elis, centred on the idea that nothing can be known for certain; widespread skepticism, universal doubt.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book II, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC:Whosoever shall imagine a perpetuall confession of ignorance, and a judgement upright and without staggering, to what occasion soever may chance; That man conceives the true Phyrrhonisme.