... ;skeptical philosophical attitudes began to appear in ancient Greece about the 5th century BCE" (Popkin 1). Other philosophers (or sophists) that are more familiar to our basic learning of classical philosophy that were skeptics in their time were Protagoras and Descartes. Protagoras thought that you could make anyone believe what you wanted him or her to believe. "Protagoras is known ... man is no specific thing, therefore opening man to the possibility of being absolutely anything – this idea being as skeptic as it is. On the same note of skeptic philosophers, René Descartes express...

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