Carneades
Carneades , 213-129 BC, Greek philosopher, b. Cyrene. He studied at Athens under Diogenes the Stoic, but reacted against Stoicism and joined the Academy , where he taught a skepticism similar to that of Arcesilaus . He denied the possibility of absolute certainty in knowledge; it is disputed whether he held that probable knowledge was adequate to guide a person's actions. He recognized three degrees of probability, and his teaching anticipated modern discussions of the nature of empirical knowledge.
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/15/1995; 700+ words
; ...playwright and novelist, 1862; Edwin Muir, poet and translator, 1887; Katherine Anne Porter, author, 1890; Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov, playwright and novelist, 1891; Joseph Cheshire Cotten, screen and stage actor, 1905; James Mason...
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Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov , 1891-1940, Russian novelist and playwright. He wrote satirical...several of his works. Bibliography: See The Early Plays of Mikhail Bulgakov: 1926-1936 (tr. 1972); study by A. C. Wright (1978...
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