Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge c8.85

c8.85

(179) We are not anxious to prove that scepticism is part of the Ājīvika doctrines or not, though we would like to be clear about the use of the term Ājīvika, so as to avoid confusion (*v. infra*, 196). But if Prof Basham is saying that there was no school (or schools) of Sceptics, but only 'agnostic teachers' who were sceptics only with regard to metaphysical questions, it is necessary to urge that, as we have shown above, the independent evidence and testimony of both the Buddhist as well as the Jain texts seem to point in the opposite direction. But