Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Anaxarchus, Thomas Hobbes and Michle Friend

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13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism

3061	Anaxarchus said that he was not even sure that he knew nothing [Anaxarchus, by Diog. Laertius]
	Full Idea: Anaxarchus said that he was not even sure that he knew nothing.
	From: report of Anaxarchus (fragments/reports [c.340 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 09.10.1

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 5. Dream Scepticism

2357	Dreams must be false because they seem absurd, but dreams don't see waking as absurd [Hobbes]
	Full Idea: Because waking I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts, I am well satisfied that, being awake, I know I dream not, though when I dream I think myself awake.
	From: Thomas Hobbes (Leviathan [1651], 1.02)