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The earliest writings in this philosophical tradition were satirical poems called silloi written by Timon of Phlius. Diogenes Laërtius claimed that this tradition’s founder accompanied Anaxarchus to India and was influenced by the gymnosophists. A book on the “Outlines” of one form of this tradition distinguishes it from Carneades’s (20[1])“Academic” form. (20[1])Edmund Husserl (20[1])was influenced by this tradition’s practice of (20[1])(*) epoché (“eh-po-KAY”), or bracketing. Sextus Empiricus was a philosopher (10[1])from this tradition (10[1])that, like Stoicism and Epicureanism, believed that the highest good was a state of suspended judgment called ataraxia. For 10 points, (10[1])Pyrrho of Elis founded what philosophical tradition that doubts the possibility (10[1])of (10[1])certain (10[2])knowledge? (10[2])■END■ (10[11])

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