Abstract

In That Nothing Is Known, Francisco Sanchez created a very interesting reflection on the analysis of language and on the epistemic consequences of the importance of language. He did so in a way that allowed some scholars to consider him a predecessor of analytic philosophy. The Spanish physician believed that language had a leading role within science, but he also thought that language was a weak foundation upon which to build any attempt of knowledge.

Highlights

  • In That Nothing Is Known, Francisco Sanchez created a very interesting reflection on the analysis of language and on the epistemic consequences of the importance of language

  • 1 This sceptical arsenal was recovered during 1420s when some Italian humanists brought Diogenes Laertius‘s works from Constantinople as well as the edition of Sextus Empiricus‘s Outlines of Pyrrhonism in 1562 ([6], p. 55 and ff.)

  • This expanded and revised edition is the continuation of Popkin‘s The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes, written in 1960 and the real threshold of the studies on the history of Renaissance skepticism

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In That Nothing Is Known, Francisco Sanchez created a very interesting reflection on the analysis of language and on the epistemic consequences of the importance of language.

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