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Socrates
Cicero
William of Ockham
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René Descartes
David Hume
Søren Kierkegaard
Bertrand Russell
Jacques Derrida
A.J. Ayer
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Pierre Charron
French theologian
Agrippa
Greek philosopher
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
Renaissance scholar
Santayana
George Santayana
Spanish-American philosopher
Maimon, engraving by Wilhelm Arndt
Salomon Maimon
Jewish philosopher
Menodotus Of Nicomedia
philosopher of medicine
Lars Gyllensten
Swedish author