WHO WAS AENESIDEMUS?

Aenesidemus (1st cn. B.C.E.)

Aenesidemus (1st cn. B.C.E.)
Aenesidemus was the founder pyrrhoian skeptticism . He was born at Gnossus in Crete, but lived at Alexandria and flourished shortly after Cicero . Aenesidemus originally was a member of Plato’s Academy. One head of the Academy, Philo, turned to a kind of moderate fallibilism, during which one could assent to several beliefs and gain knowledge, although not certainty, while a later head, Antiochus , propounded a dogmatic and syncretistic philosophy, claiming that at heart Plato, the Stoics, and lots of other philosophers were really saying an equivalent thing .

THE TEN MODES OF AENESIDEMUS 

 AENESIDEMUS is taken into the creator of the ten modes of Aenesidemus (also referred to as ten tropes of Aenesidemus)—although whether he invented the tropes or simply systematized them from prior Pyrrhonist works is unknown. The tropes represent reasons for epoche (Suspension of judgement). These are as follows:

(1) The emotions and perceptions of all living beings differ. (2) People have different physical structure and different mental abilities. (3) The various senses give different impressions of things. (4) Our perceptions rely on our physical and intellectual conditions at the time of perception. (5) Things appear different in several positions, and at different distances. (6) Perception isn't direct, but always through a medium. As an example, we see things through the air. (7) Things appear different consistent with variations in their quantity, color, motion, and temperature. (8) A thing impresses us differently when it's familiar and when it's unfamiliar. (9) All supposed knowledge is predication.(10) The opinions and customs of peoples are different in several countries.