What is the name of Popkin´s work?
The history of Scepticism, from Eramus to Spinoza
Who was the founder of skepticism?
Pyrrhon of Elis.
Varieties of skepticism can be distinguished in two ways, what do they depend on?
Depending upon the focus and depending upon the extent of the doubt.
According to Hume, the perception of the world is created by which two things?
Ideas and Impressions.
What claimed the philosophers of ancient Greece about skepticism?
The human being wouldn't be able to find certain answers to the mysteries of nature and the universe, because any point of view is true.
What is Rene Descartes’ famous phrase that expresses skepticism?
It is “I think, therefore I am”.
What is the main principle of skepticism?
To hesitate or to doubt.
Why human beings would not be able to acquire true knowledge?
Skepticism says there is no possibility of true knowledge. The truth does not exist, and if it exists, there is no possibility of knowing it.
What is the author of the book Against the Academicians?
St. Augustine.
Who did Michel de Montaigne oppose to?
People who say that everything is uncertain and those who say everything is not.
