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Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 30, 2010
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...imagination. It is an art first named in the West by the ancient philosopher Pyrrho of Elis. He travelled to India with Alexander the...modern-day Pakistan, he met the Gymnosophists, the naked philosophers. It was not just their literal nakedness that impressed...disbelief. He founded a group that came to be called the Sceptics, though the word then meant a searcher, not a cynic...