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    Suspension of judgment (epochê) is the best way to avoid ... — Carmelics
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    Suspension of judgment (epochê) is the best way to avoid overhasty commitment to opinions

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    • 1.Opinions are based on appearances
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    • 2.Appearances can be deceitful
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    • 1.Epochê itself constitutes a judgment about the epistemic status of appearances, making universal suspension self-undermining.
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    • 2.If one suspends judgment about whether appearances are deceitful, one equally suspends the premise that motivates epochê itself.
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    • 1.Aristotle argued that deliberate action requires prior commitments to normative truths, making total epochê practically paralyzing.
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    • 2.A life of complete suspension is not a human life but an existence without agency, as the Stoics charged the Academics with advocating apraxia.
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    Like the Hellenistic Philosophers and Antiochus, Plutarch appears to be particularly sensitive to the question of how we acquire knowledge. Plutarch sets out to defend the interpretation of Plato's epistemology maintained in the skeptical Academy. According to this interpretation, suspension of judgment (epochê) is the best way to avoid overhasty commitment to opinions (doxai), since the appearances on which they are based can be deceitful. Plutarch defends this epistemological position against
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