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Democritus: Critical Essay by Jonathan Barnes

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SOURCE: “The Bounds of Knowledge,” in The Presocratic Philosophers: Volume 2: Empedocles to Democritus, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979, pp. 234-62.

In the following excerpt, Barnes discusses Democritus's skepticism regarding humankind's ability to know anything with certainty.

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