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regress argument

problem in epistemology that any proposition can be endlessly questioned

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Sextus Empiricus

Michel de Montaigne

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Concepts in epistemology Justification (epistemology)Philosophical arguments Philosophical problems

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cogito ergo sum

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philosophical skepticism

infinite regress

René Descartes

Augustine of Hippo

Bertrand Russell

Benedictus de Spinoza

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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