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Books on: skeptics

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Encyclopedia Articles on: skeptics

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    Timon of Phlius
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    TIMON OF PHLIUS fli s, c.320 c.230 b.c., Greek skeptic philosopher, chief disciple of Pyrrho . Timon denied the possibility...judgment and indifference to externals. After Timons death the skeptics lost their separate identity and became absorbed into the Academy...
     
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    Arcesilaus
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...emphasizing the doubt expressed by Socrates as to the possibility of gaining knowledge, he took a position comparable to that of the Skeptics (see skepticism ). He argued that knowledge and opinion could not be distinguished from each other, so that what anyone...
     
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    Hindu Philosophy
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...also with the so-called heterodox schools, which rejected the authority of the Veda: Buddhism , Jainism , the Ajivikas or skeptics, and the materialist Carvaka school. Schools of Hindu Philosophy Nyaya, traditionally founded by Akshapada Gautama (6th...
     
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    Skepticism
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...objective reality. The Sophists were the earliest group of skeptics. Protagoras taught the relativity of knowledge, and Gorgias...philosophical and theological theories. David Hume , a leading modern skeptic, challenged established assumptions about the self, substance...
     
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    Global Warming
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...create computerized models that simulate the earths climate . The validity of these models has been a subject of controversy. Skeptics say that the climate is too complicated to be accurately modeled, and that there are too many unknowns. Some also question...
     

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