the philosopher so committed to doubt he reportedly walked toward cliffs and let friends catch him.
means an ancient greek philosopher who founded skepticism by arguing that certainty is impossible, so the wise response is to suspend judgment entirely.
from born around 360 bce in elis, greece, he traveled to india with alexander the great's campaign and met gymnosophists and magi whose radical detachment reportedly reshaped his thinking; he left no writings, so everything known comes secondhand through his student timon of phlius.
timon of phlius — his student who recorded and satirized his ideas in verse
sextus empiricus — roman-era doctor who systematized pyrrhonism centuries later
aenesidemus — revived pyrrhonism as a formal school around 1st century bce