page_title: Ephectics
hierarchical_section_title: Ephectics
caption_attribution_description: English: Pyrrho, ancient Greek philosopher. From Thomas Stanley, (1655), The history of philosophy: containing the lives, opinions, actions and Discourses of the Philosophers of every Sect, illustrated with effigies of divers of them.
context_page_description: An ephectic potentially describes three interrelated concepts: a type of skeptic, the practice of a type of skepticism, or the general state of being "given to suspense of judgment".
context_section_description: An ephectic (Ancient Greek: ἐφεκτικός, ephektikos) potentially describes three interrelated concepts: (1) a type of skeptic, (2) the practice of a type of skepticism, or (3) the general state of being "given to suspense of judgment".
caption: Pyrrho, c. 360 – c. 270 BC
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