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Boundless Skepticism and the Five Modes
There is a difference between the tasks of interpreting Sextus Empiricus and contesting his arguments. Usually, one does the latter relying on some version of the former. Though this seems obvious, it is easy to make mistakes in this endeavor. From this point, I draw two basic recommendations which we should follow, lest we take Sextus to hold implausible positions regarding his Five Modes. However, these recommendations lead us to interpret Sextus’ Pyrrhonism as a limited skepticism. In the final section, as I suggest a counter-example to this commitment, I reconsider the notion of infinite in the Five Modes to better explain interpretation and criticism of Sextus’ arguments
On Equilibrium Prices in Continuous Time
We combine general equilibrium theory and theorie generale of stochastic
processes to derive structural results about equilibrium state prices
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