Pyrrhonism in Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary Philosophy by Diego E. Machuca

Author:Diego E. Machuca
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

The term he invariably uses to describe the negative part of his method is redargutio, that is, a simple refusal, and not refutatio; both of these should be taken, accordingly, as different forms of confutatio. In Tempus Partus Masculus, written before NO, this is the reason he offers for this alternative procedure: confronting madness, he says, will only serve to exacerbate it and to lead spirits to be closed inside themselves, while he is searching instead for a way to engage men in an entirely new scientific enterprise, by means of a new form of argument (nova ratio).60 But the same procedure is present in the doctrine of the idols, as he states just before presenting it in NO:Borgia said of the French expedition into Italy, that they came chalk in hand to mark up their lodgings, not sword in hands with arms to break their way in. In the same way I plan to ease my doctrines into souls suitably qualified and capable of understanding them. For confutations (confutationum) cannot be employed when the differences are upon the first principles and the very notions, and even upon the forms of demonstration. (NO I, §35; Sp I, 162; OFB 77)

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