Between Empiricism and Universal Scepticism: Notes on Two Contemporary Interpretive Models of the Gnoseology of Xenophanes of Colophon.

This paper examines the two contemporary interpretation models of the philosophy of Xenophanes of Colophon formulated by Hermann Fränkel and Ernst Heitsch. It will be demonstrated that both models primarily relate to the two well-established ways of interpreting his gnoseology popular in the doxogra...

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Publicado en:Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 23 - 40
Autor principal: ŚPIEWAK, SEBASTIAN
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Publicado: Wroclaw University Press 2025
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