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    Suspension of judgment can advance knowledge

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    • 1.Suspension of judgment eliminates doxa (opinion) and philautia (egoism)
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    • 2.Doxa and philautia are obstacles to finding truth
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    • 3.Removing obstacles to truth enables progress toward knowledge
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    • 1.Aristotle argues in Nicomachean Ethics that practical wisdom (phronesis) requires committed judgment, not suspension, to guide action toward eudaimonia.
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    • 2.A knower who perpetually suspends judgment cannot form the stable beliefs that constitute the dispositional states Aristotle identifies as knowledge.
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    • 3.Therefore, suspension of judgment systematically undermines the epistemic conditions knowledge requires rather than advancing toward them.
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    • 1.Hegel's Phenomenology demonstrates that determinate negation—not suspension—drives epistemic progress; consciousness advances by committing to positions and discovering their contradictions.
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    • 2.Pyrrhonian epoché halts the dialectical movement that transforms mere opinion into genuine knowing (Wissen) by refusing the determinate commitments contradiction requires.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    According to Plutarch, knowledge of intelligibles through anamnêsis is not in tension with the Academic prescription for suspension of judgment; rather, knowledge can be advanced by suspension of judgment, since the latter puts aside opinion (doxa) as well as egoism (philautia), both of which prevent us from finding the truth (Plat. Quest. 1000C). To be in a position to carry out this search for truth, however, one must search oneself and purify one's soul, Plutarch argues (Adv. Col. 1118C-E).
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