Tracing its origins back to Pyrrho of Elis, whose followers held an extreme view, the Academic or moderate branch of this school of thought was founded by Arcesilaus and its practitioners have included Gorgias, Protagoras, Descartes, Hume and Santayana. For ten points name t
Tracing its origins back to Pyrrho of Elis, whose followers held an extreme view, the Academic or moderate branch of this school of thought was founded by Arcesilaus and its practitioners have included Gorgias, Protagoras, Descartes, Hume and Santayana. For ten points name this school of philosophic thought, which one of its followers summed up as 'Nothing is; or if it is, it cannot be known', which thus casts doubt on the possibilities of human knowledge.
Tracing its origins back to Pyrrho of Elis, whose followers held an extreme view, the Academic or moderate branch of this school of thought was founded by Arcesilaus and its practitioners have included Gorgias, Protagoras, Descartes, Hume and Santayana.
{Skepticism}