Editing Sextus Empiricus (section)

== Life ==
Little is known about Sextus Empiricus. He likely lived in [[Alexandria]], [[Rome]], or [[Athens]].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL273/1933/volume.xml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608153204/https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674993013 |title=Outlines of Pyrrhonism | date=1957 | publisher=W. Heinemann, Limited | isbn=978-0-674-99301-3 |access-date=2023-10-15 | archive-date=2023-06-08 |url-status=live}}</ref> His Roman name, [[Sextus]], implies he was a Roman citizen.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MPFkU8agamYC&dq=sextus+empiricus+roman+citizen&pg=PA6|title=What Did the Romans Know?: An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking|first=Daryn|last=Lehoux|date=March 15, 2012|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-47115-0 |via=Google Books}}</ref> The ''[[Suda]],'' a 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia, states that he was the same person as [[Sextus of Chaeronea]],<ref name="auto">[[Suda]], Sextos σ 235.</ref> as do other pre-modern sources, but this identification is commonly doubted.<ref>[[Luciano Floridi]] ''Sextus Empiricus: The Transmission and Recovery of Pyrrhonism'' 2002 {{ISBN|0195146719}} pp 3–7.</ref> In his medical work, as reflected by his name, tradition maintains that he belonged to the Empiric school in which Pyrrhonism was popular. However, at least twice in his writings, Sextus seems to place himself closer to the [[Methodic school]].