Aenesidemus' Skepticism

Aenesidemus was one of the earliest Greek skeptics who forbore to accept the putative distinction between the Platonic philo-class and the Stoics, ultimately divorcing himself from the former school in a rendering effort to define a stringent discipline of relative skepticism. The paling cohesion of content within the educating Academy loosed a noisome dissension on the ruling body - divisions were assumed in opposition to one standardized, core dogma, producing an antagonistic faction embodied in the much-inclusive philosophy of Antiochus, whose lectures condemned Platonism as falling into the coils of arbitrary Stoicism; he would foolishly attempt to reconcile the two systems, which led to a significant schism among the students. Recognizing the disparity, Aenesidemus eschewed all ontological knowledge as funding to the true discrepancy perfidious to all man. He would devise a construction of modes -or forms -  ten in number, which closely resemble the predicate of modern-day perspectivism; the tenets syllogistically refute knowledge, and to an infant extent causality, as being intrinsically impossible. Aenesidemus charged that relativism amongst species precludes a greater information than that which is arguably available to us, as reasoning creatures. Furthermore, he challenged the presupposition of the accuracy of the senses, offering as evidence the continual evolutionary variations of phenomena, resulting in a sensory-world of an expressly unreliable, and insupportable, medium. Sextus Empirucus relates the existence of a singular following of skeptics under Aenesidemus, remarking an obscure movement referred to as “Pyrrhonism.”