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Pyrrhonian (actually Aenesidemian)

Pyrrhonism is an Ancient Greek school of philosophical skepticism which rejects dogma and advocates the suspension of judgement over the truth of all beliefs. It was founded by Aenesidemus in the first century BCE, and said to have been inspired by the teachings of Pyrrho and Timon of Phlius in the fourth century BCE.

Pyrrhonism is best known today through the surviving works of Sextus Empiricus, writing in the late second century or early third century CE. The publication of Sextus' works in the Renaissance ignited a revival of interest in Skepticism and played a major role in Reformation thought and the development of early modern philosophy.

The goal of Pyrrhonism is ataraxia, an untroubled and tranquil condition of soul that results from a suspension of judgement, a mental rest owing to which we neither deny nor affirm anything.

If only the Abrahamics could have taken a lesson from that book, a lot less people would have ended up stoned to death, hung, or burned alive.

This is in contrast to Socratian:

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance

Wherein what is true is good and what is ignorance of that truth evil, as the Pyrrhonian good doesn't seek to find the truth at all.