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    It is not the case that Pyrrhonian skeptics systematically suspended judgment on truth's reliability, treating its value as genuinely open rather than presupposed.

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    • 1.Systematic judgment suspension itself presupposes truth's reliability—that non-assertion is a better epistemic stance than assertion.
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    • 2.Pyrrhonians necessarily rely on truth to communicate their position, making universal skepticism about truth self-undermining.
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    • 3.Practical life requires acting as if some beliefs are reliable; epoché cannot consistently extend to action without incoherence.
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    • 1.Pyrrhonian skeptics observed that equally compelling arguments exist for opposite positions on most philosophical questions.
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    • 2.Suspending judgment avoids the dogmatism of asserting truth-criteria without adequate justification for those criteria themselves.
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    • 3.Epoché (suspension) describes an actual psychological state achievable through practice, not merely a theoretical ideal.
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