The Modes Combined

Abstract

This chapter examines how all of the Agrippan modes (bar relativity for the reasons given in Chapter 5) work in combination with one another. Sextus provides us with two such sceptical ‘nets’ in the Outlines each of which is analysed. A third net of Jonathan Barnes’s invention is also analysed, as well a fourth, modified version of Barnes’s net. The conclusion drawn is that all four combinations are underscored by a variety of theoretical assumptions which the sceptic is not in a position to make.