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Arcesilaus (Arkesilaus), c. 315 BC - c. 240 BC. Ancient Hellenistic thinker and head of the Platonic Academy who abandoned the dogmatic tradition and began the Academy's movement toward Skepticism. He launched a vigorous attack on Stoic epistemology.

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• Arcesilaus

  http://www.iep.utm.edu/arcesil/
  Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on this thinker, with links to related topics.

• Wikipedia: Arcesilaus

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcesilaus
  Article drawn from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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