ABSTRACT
Pyrrhonists themselves describe Scepticism as an agoge, a way of life; its goal is ataraxia, freedom from mental disturbance, which is also described as the 'causal origin of the Sceptic way'; and it appears to prescribe a method of achieving that end. This chapter investigates every non-evident issue, and by means of the Sceptical ability to oppose appearance to appearance, judgement to judgement, etc., such that every non-phenomenal issue will appear to be controverted, and every non-phenomenal claim seem to have precisely as much to be said for it as against it. This isostheneia, or equipollence of argument leads us to Epoche, or suspension of judgement upon which ataraxia supervenes 'as a shadow on a body'. The Sceptic does not do away with the appearances, he lives 'by adhering to them according to an observance of life, undogmatically.
