Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism

Chapter 32

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[Greek: epochĂȘ] _or the Suspension of Judgment._

When I say that I suspend my judgment, I mean that I cannot 196 say which of those things presented should be believed, and which should not be believed, showing that things appear equal to me in respect to trustworthiness and untrustworthiness. Now we do not affirm that they are equal, but we state what appears to us in regard to them at the time when they present themselves to us. [Greek: epochĂȘ] means the holding back of the opinion, so as neither to affirm nor deny anything because of the equality of the things in question.