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Venice; 1752
( Of the forces of human understanding, or whether Pyrrhonism refuted, a treatise by Lodovico Antonio Muratori, librarian of the Most Serene Lord Duke of Modena, as opposed to the book of the alleged Monsignor Huet on the weakness of human understanding )
A successfull book attacking modern skepticism and particularly the anti-Cartesian Traite Philosophique de la Foibless de L'espirit Humain, by Pierre Daniel Huet.
Muratori is known as father of Italian historical writing.
Size 4 3/4 by 7 3/4"
Full vellum binding, with manuscript title to the spine
Foxing, some soiling and wear of vellum
248 pages
Text in Italian
Pyrrhonism, philosophy of Skepticism derived from Pyrrho of Elis (c. 370–c. 272 bce), generally regarded as the founder of ancient Skepticism. He identified as wise men those who suspend judgment (practice epoche) and take no part in the controversy regarding the possibility of certain knowledge.
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