Epochè played an interesting role in Pyrrhonism, the skeptical philosophy of Pyrrho. On the basis of claiming that we do not know anything, Pyrrho argued that the preferred attitude to be adopted is Epochè, i.e., the suspension of judgment or the withholding of assent. It is not true that the result of this is an embrace of the idea that we have no rationale to choose one way of action or another; rather, one kind of life or one kind of action cannot be definitively said to be the 'correct' way or action, including those proscribed by Pyrrhonism. Instead of the Skeptic suggesting a life of inaction, he/she insists that one ought to live according to customs, laws, and traditions. Also, it is important to note that the Skeptics do not dogmatically assert the inability to know anything: the very word SKEPSIS means 'always searching/investigating'--it would, indeed, be counter-intuitive to boldly assert that nothing can be known since that very proposition itself would then be elevated to the status of something which is known.
