When1: -275
When2: -110
Who: Middle Academy or Second Academy
What: philosophic school
Where: Greece
Detail: School had followers of Plato and included the skeptics Arcesilaus of Pitane, Lacydes, Carneades, Diocles, Clitomachus, and Metrodorus. Sensations can be false, because true and false ones are the same to senses. Concepts or ideas have truth probability based on reasonableness and aptness. People can gain enough confidence to use it for action. Belief is greater if idea can relate to other ideas and experience, without contradiction. People should suspend judgment.
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