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"The Skeptic employs the verb ‘to be’ with the meaning of ‘to appear’ because he suspends judgment on the existence of anything good, bad, or indifferent by nature, and limits himself to basing his value judgments on the different ways things appear to him."

Would it be better to say ", limiting himself to basing..."?

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I don't know. -- Limiting himself to basing his value judgments on the different ways thing appear to him, the Skeptic employs ... or, The Skeptic employs ...

— Davkett

  • I don't know.
  • -- Limiting himself to basing his value judgments on the different ways thing appear to him, the Skeptic employs ...
  • or, The Skeptic employs ...
  • and limits ...
  • or, The Skeptic employs...
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I don't know. Which is the intended meaning?--

Limiting himself to basing his value judgments on the different ways thing appear to him, the Skeptic employs ...

or,

The Skeptic employs... and limits...

or,

The Skeptic employs... because he suspends...
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I thought that perhpas the use of the gerund, "limiting", makes more sense in the context of the sentence. Use of "and limits" would be correct if the sentence meant that there are 2 reasons the skeptic uses "to be" as he does, and those reasons were that he suspends judgment on the existence of good, bad, etc, and the other is that he limits himself to basing his value judgments on the ways thing
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So it sounds like the first of the four interpretations above is the one you want. Thus, I'd think the preferred choice is the gerund.
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