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“Xenophanes speaks thus:
And no man knows distinctly anything,
And no man ever will.”
Pyrrho, 8.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 9: Uncategorized philosophers and Skeptics
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