This chapter explores the concept of ‘Sextan scepticism’. It addresses the question of whether Sextus was a radical and rustic sceptic or a moderate and urbane sceptic. It argues Sextan scepticism, despite the intimations of the first paragraph of the Outlines and notwithstanding numerous counter-indications in the Greek texts, is out-and-out rustic.
Keywords: Sextus Empiricus, Outlines, philosophical investigation, rustic