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Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592) : Michel de Montaigne believed there was no objective way of distinguishing among various claims of truth like the earlier Greek and Roman Skeptics. His doubts concerning human knowledge stimulated a number of subsequent thinkers such as Bacon and Descartes.
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