...This chapter examines the three things that Augustine of Hippo sets out to do in the monologue of Against the Academics to directly establish the possibility of knowledge. First, Augustine presents three dilemmas concerning Zeno's definition of an apprehensible impression to force...

...This chapter examines Augustine of Hippo's efforts to vindicate the possibility of knowledge as he sought to discredit Academic skepticism. It first considers the debate that took place between the Academics and the Stoics over the possibility of knowledge, with particular emphasis on the Academics...

...This afterword summarizes the main points of Augustine of Hippo's strategy for vindicating the possibility of knowledge against the Academics' denial of that possibility. Augustine puts forward a number of truths in each of the divisions of philosophy—physics, ethics, and dialectic—that he claims...

... such first-person truths to constitute a fifth class of truths, whose existence Augustine thinks is a decisive refutation of the Academics' denial of the possibility of knowledge. This chapter begins with an overview of the earliest discussions of first-person truths in Augustine's corpus, including...