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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Sextus Empiricus lived in the mid-to-late second century CE, practicing medicine in the Empiric tradition while holding Roman citizenship. He belonged to the Pyrrhonist school, which suspended judgment on whether humans could grasp objective truth. His philosophical works outlasted nearly all other Pyrrhonist texts, preserving not only that tradition's arguments but also detailed critiques of rival Hellenistic philosophies. Those critiques turned his books into an unintended archive: much of what we know about competing ancient schools survives because Sextus wrote them down to argue against them.