Friday, June 27, 2008

Xenophanes (570 BC – 480 BC)

According to Xenophanes, one cannot be sure that inductively derived ideas about the world are true. Since the truth of reality is inaccessible to human beings, knowledge can only be used as working hypotheses. Xenophanes maintains that there is only one god (the infinite, eternal and immutable universe) which he regards with no religious feeling.

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