The key to the trick is the revelation that nothing in life need be taken seriously. Pyrrhonism does not even take itself seriously. Ordinary dogmatic Scepticism asserts the impossibility of knowledge: it is summed up in Socrates’s remark: ‘All I know is that I know nothing.’ Pyrrhonian Scepticism starts from this point, but then adds, in effect, ‘and I’m not even sure about that.’ Having stated its one philosophical principle, it turns in a circle and gobbles itself up, leaving only a puff of absurdity.
