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Skepticism: Quick Facts

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Also Known As scepticism

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David Hume
Fragment of a Roman fresco showing Socrates seated and draped in a white robe, with Greek text above, on a red background with visible cracks.
Marble bust of Marcus Tullius Cicero, shown with short hair and draped clothing, displayed against a black background.
William of Ockham
Hans Holbein the Younger: Erasmus
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
Engraving of Pierre-Daniel Huet by Gerard Edelinck after Nicolas de Largilliere, showing a man with curly hair, clerical robes, and a cross, set in an oval frame.
George Berkeley
Christian Kierkegaard: Søren Kierkegaard
Albert Camus
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Pierre Charron
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Agrippa
Greek philosopher
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
Renaissance scholar
Santayana
George Santayana
Spanish-American philosopher
Maimon, engraving by Wilhelm Arndt
Salomon Maimon
Jewish philosopher
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Menodotus Of Nicomedia
philosopher of medicine
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Lars Gyllensten
Swedish author