biography
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| (c.1550–1623)
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| biography:
| Physician and philosopher, probably from Braga in Portugal. He became professor of philosophy (1585) and then medicine (1612) at Toulouse. His main work is a study of philosophical scepticism, Quod nihil scitur (1576, That Nothing is Known, published in 1581), which is a radical critique of Aristotle and argues that true knowledge is impossible; we must settle for the limited information available from careful experiment and observation. |
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