Weighing the opposite case: equipollence

Sextus Empiricus recorded the method of the ancient skeptics: to any assertion, set a contrary argument of equal strength, until the two come into balance, equipollence. This exercise takes up that gesture as a discipline: not to reach a conclusion, but to build with your own hands the strongest case against an opinion that grips you too tightly. As the scales even out, the hold of the forced opinion loosens, and epochē becomes possible. Today it softens the certainties one has locked oneself into without truly examining them.