When1: -200
When2: 1
Who: Skepticism
What: philosophic school
Where: Greece/Rome, Italy
Detail: School included Aenesidemus, Agrippa, and Lucian.
Epistemology
Effects have many possible causes, but people select only one, without sufficient reason. People ignore experience that disproves the cause. Perception is the only basis for finding causal sequence, so people should use only directly perceived cause, not general premise or law. Using material or immaterial force to explain cause is not good, because you must explain force. Using contact is not good, because you must define contact. The idea that causes are motion transfers has no clear definition. Time relations can be variable and relative. Nothing in itself is cause or effect. It only becomes cause in actual relation, so there cannot be an absolute cause, such as God.
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