文档介绍：Sextus Empiricus and Modern Empiricism
Roderick M. Chisholm
Philosophy of Science, Vol. 8, No. 3. (Jul., 1941), pp. 371-384.
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Mon Jun 4 08:38:18 2007
Sextus Empiricus and Modern
Empiricism'
BY
RODERICK M. CHISHOLM
LTHOUGH it is difficult to exaggerate the simi-
larities between the philosophical doctrines of
contemporary scientific empiricists and those
which were expounded by Sextus Empiricus,
the Greek physician and sceptic of the third
century A. D., Sextus seems to have been
neglected by most historians of empiricism. An account of his
position may be of some pertinence at the present time, for a
striking parallel can be drawn without any distortion. His most
significant contributions are: first, the positivistic and behavior-
istic theory of signs which he opposed to the metaphysical
theory of the Stoics; secondly, his discussion of phenomenalism
and its relation mon sense claims to knowledg