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===Correspondence with Pyrrhonism=== {{Main|Ancient Greek philosophy}} {{Further|Similarities between Pyrrhonism and Buddhism}} {{Pyrrhonism sidebar}} [[Thomas McEvilley]] notes a correspondence between Greek [[Pyrrhonism]] and the Buddhist [[Madhyamaka|Mādhyamaka]] school: {{quote|Sextus says <ref>Sextus Empericus, ''Outlines of Pyrrhonism'', II.14–18; ''Anthologia Palatina'' (Palatine Anthology), VII. 29–35, and elsewhere</ref> that there are two criteria: # [T]hat by which we judge reality and unreality, and # [T]hat which we use as a guide in everyday life. According to the first criterion, nothing is either true or false[.] [I]nductive statements based on direct observation of phenomena may be treated as either true or false for the purpose of making everyday practical decisions.<br/> The distinction, as Conze<ref>Conze 1959, pp. 140–141)</ref> has noted, is equivalent to the Madhyamaka distinction between "Absolute truth" (''paramārthasatya''), "the knowledge of the real as it is without any distortion,"<ref name="Conze 1959: p. 244">Conze (1959: p. 244)</ref> and "Truth so-called" (''saṃvṛti satya''), "truth as conventionally believed in common parlance.<ref name="Conze 1959: p. 244"/><ref>{{cite book |first=Thomas |last=McEvilley |title=The Shape of Ancient Thought |publisher=Allworth Communications |year=2002 |isbn=1-58115-203-5}}, p. 474</ref>}} Thus in Pyrrhonism "absolute truth" corresponds to [[acatalepsy]] and "conventional truth" to [[phantasiai]].
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