Academic skepticism
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title:
Academic skepticism
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Academic skepticism refers to the skeptical period of the Academy dating from around 266 BCE, when Arcesilaus became scholarch, until around 90 BCE, when Antiochus of Ascalon rejected skepticism, although individual philosophers, such as Favorinus and his teacher Plutarch, continued to defend skepticism after this date. Unlike the existing school of skepticism, the Pyrrhonists, they maintained that knowledge of things is impossible. Ideas or notions are never true; nevertheless, there are degree
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Skeptical period of ancient Academy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_skepticism
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2009-12-11T00:32:16Z
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2024-09-03T04:47:11Z
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