Suspension of Belief

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Suspension of Belief
	Contents
	Introduction
	1 What Is Suspension of Belief?
		1.1 Contemporary Analysis and Ancient Echoes
		1.2 Suspension in Sextus Empiricus
		1.3 Suspension before Sextus
			1.3.1 Socratic Wisdom and Paradoxes
			1.3.2 Aphasia and Aporia
			1.3.3 Lack of Opinion in Pyrrho
			1.3.4 The Debate between Stoics and Academic Sceptics
	2 When Does Suspension of Belief Arise?
		2.1 Rational Suspension
			2.1.1 Balance of Evidence
			2.1.2 Methodological Suspension and Hypothetical Reasoning
		2.2 Irrational, Non-Rational, and Involuntary Suspension
	3 What Could the Scope of Suspension Be?
		3.1 Ways of Restricting the Scope of Suspension
		3.2 The Scope of Academic and Pyrrhonian Scepticism
			3.2.1 Arcesilaus
			3.2.2 Carneades
			3.2.3 Aenesidemus
			3.2.4 Agrippa’s Five Modes
		3.3 Plato and Aristotle
	4 What Are the Practical and Moral Implications of Suspension of Belief?
		4.1 Action, Inaction, and Happiness
		4.2 Filibusterers and Corruptors of Minds
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