[Revised entry by Charles Bolyard on January 9, 2025.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
Overarching surveys of the history of philosophy often leave the impression that philosophical skepticism – roughly, the position that nothing can be known – had many adherents in the Ancient and Hellenistic Periods, disappeared completely as a topic of intellectual interest during the Middle Ages, and returned as a viable position in the Renaissance and Early Modern Periods….
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