Abstract
In recent years, studies on ancient skepticism and its relationship to modern skepticism have become prominent. The development of exegesis and research regarding ancient skepticism has been highly compelling and allows us today to see with greater clarity and relevance its relationship with modern skepticism. Most studies on this relation focus on methodological doubt. It is evident that methodological doubt has a close relationship with some of the arguments found in ancient skepticism—both Academic and Pyrrhonian—although there are also very important differences. However, it has become common to highlight only this point in the relation between Descartes and the ancient skeptics. I believe that this interpretation is inadequate, because it is too narrow. There is a typical skeptical problem present in the Third Meditation, though not exclusively there, which coincides with the problem of the criterion of the ancient skeptics.
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