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Metrodorus of Chios
Metrodorus of Chios was a Greek philosopher of the fourth century BCE in the atomist tradition of Democritus. He was known for a radical scepticism, declaring that none of us knows anything, not even whether we know or not. Through his pupils the tradition passed to Anaxarchus and Pyrrho, the founder of Pyrrhonist scepticism.
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