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  1. Philosophical Skepticism.Ancient Western Skepticism & Practical Wisdom - 2002 - Hume Studies 28 (2).
  2. Ancient Skepticism: Pyrrhonism.Diego E. Machuca - 2011 - Philosophy Compass 6 (4):246-258.
    Pyrrhonism was one of the two main ancient skeptical traditions. In this second paper of the three‐part series devoted to ancient skepticism, I present and discuss some of the issues on Pyrrhonian skepticism which have been the focus of much attention in the recent literature. The topics to be addressed concern the outlooks of Pyrrho, Aenesidemus, and Sextus Empiricus.
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    Ancient Skepticism and Modern Fiction: Some Political Implications.John Christian Laursen - 2019 - Elenchos: Rivista di Studi Sul Pensiero Antico 40 (1):199-215.
    This article draws out the political implications of some of the avatars of ancient skepticism in modern fiction. It relies on Martha Nussbaum’s claim that fiction can provide some of the best lessons in moral philosophy to refute her claim that ancient skepticism was a bad influence on morals. It surveys references to skepticism from Shakespeare through such diverse writers as Isabel de Charrière, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Anatole France, and Albert Camus down to recent (...)
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  4. Ancient Skepticism: The Skeptical Academy.Diego Machuca - 2011 - Philosophy Compass 6 (4):259-266.
    Ancient philosophy knew two main skeptical traditions: the Pyrrhonian and the Academic. In this final paper of the three‐part series devoted to ancient skepticism, I present some of the topics about Academic skepticism which have recently been much debated in the specialist literature. I will be concerned with the outlooks of Arcesilaus, Carneades, and Philo of Larissa.
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  5. Ancient Skepticism: Overview.Diego E. Machuca - 2011 - Philosophy Compass 6 (4):234-245.
    Scholarship on ancient skepticism has undergone a remarkable renaissance in the last three decades. Specialists in ancient philosophy have explored the complex history of the Greco‐Roman skeptical traditions and discussed difficult philological and exegetical issues. But they have also assessed the philosophical significance of the various ancient skeptical outlooks. In this first paper, I provide a general presentation of this area of study, while in the two subsequent articles I will focus on some of the topics (...)
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    Introduction: Ancient Skepticism, Voluntarism, and Science.Anjan Chakravartty - 2015 - International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 5 (2):73-79.
    In this introduction, I motivate the project of examining certain resonances between ancient skeptical positions, especially Pyrrhonism, and positions in contemporary epistemology, with special attention to recent work in the epistemology of science. One such resonance concerns the idea of suspension of judgment or belief in certain contexts or domains of inquiry, and the reasons for (or processes eventuating in) suspension. Another concerns the question of whether suspension of belief in such circumstances is voluntary, in any of the senses (...)
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  7. Ancient skepticism and causation.Jonathan Barnes - 1983 - In Myles Burnyeat (ed.), The Skeptical Tradition. University of California Press. pp. 149--203.
     
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    Ancient Skepticism and Systematic Philosophy.Will Dudley - 2003 - Proceedings of the Hegel Society of America 16:87-105.
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  9. Descartes and ancient skepticism: Reheated cabbage?Gail Fine - 2000 - Philosophical Review 109 (2):195-234.
    Lately, several commentators have argued that there are significant differences between ancient and modern skepticism. For example, it has been argued that ancient skeptics disavow belief, whereas the moderns disavow only knowledge. It has also been argued that the scope of ancient skepticism is considerably less radical than that of modern skepticism: unlike the moderns, the ancients do not question whether they have bodies or whether there is an external world furnished with the sorts (...)
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  10. Ancient skepticism.Leo Groarke - forthcoming - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
     
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    Descartes and Ancient Skepticism: Reheated Cabbage?Gail Fine - 2000 - Philosophical Review 109 (2):195.
    Lately, several commentators have argued that there are significant differences between ancient and modern skepticism. For example, it has been argued that ancient skeptics disavow belief, whereas the moderns disavow only knowledge. It has also been argued that the scope of ancient skepticism is considerably less radical than that of modern skepticism: unlike the moderns, the ancients do not question whether they have bodies or whether there is an external world furnished with the sorts (...)
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  12. The rediscovery of ancient skepticism in modern times.Charles B. Schmitt - 1983 - In Myles Burnyeat (ed.), The Skeptical Tradition. University of California Press. pp. 225--251.
     
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  13. Self-Refutation and Ancient Skepticism.Renata Zieminska - 2011 - Filozofia Nauki 19 (3):151.
    Luca Castagnoli, Ancient Self-Refutation. The Logic and History of the Self- Refutation Argument from Democritus to Augustine, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2010, pp. XX+394. Hardback, ISBN 9780521896313. In his book Ancient Self-Refutation L. Castagnoli rightly observes that selfrefutation is not falsification; it overturns the act of assertion but does not prove that the content of the act is false. He argues against the widely spread belief that Sextus Empiricus accepted the self-refutation of his own expressions. Castagnoli also claims (...)
     
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  14. Hegel and the ancient skepticism in the Jena years.Gilles Marmasse - forthcoming - Hegel-Studien.
     
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    Descartes and the Legacy of Ancient Skepticism.Casey Perin - 2007 - In Janet Broughton & John Carriero (eds.), A Companion to Descartes. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 52–65.
    This chapter contains section titled: Introduction The Structure of Skeptical Arguments The Arguments of the Ancient Skeptics Reasons for Doubt vs. Reasons for Suspending Judgment Two Puzzles References and Further Reading.
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  16. In Defense of an Unpopular Interpretation of Ancient Skepticism.Thomas Blackson - 2005 - History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 8.
    There is a set of texts in the history of ancient skepticism that have not been widely understood. Michael Frede has done much to set these texts in their proper context, but his work has not gotten the appreciation it deserves. Historians have tended to think that ancient skepticism in the Clitomachian-Pyrrhonian tradition is the suspension of belief on all matters and that Frede’s attempt to show otherwise is confused. This may turn out to be correct, (...)
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    Gorgias, the Origin of Ancient Skepticism.Seung Kwon Park - 2018 - Journal Of pan-Korean Philosophical Society 91:103-125.
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    Practical scepticism of life. Theoretical scepticism of fiction in ancient skepticism.Ramón Román Alcalá - 2022 - Revista de Filosofía (Madrid) 48 (1):151-164.
    Es un hecho natural que la vida no puede ser suspendida, al contrario de los juicios. Admitimos que tenemos que decidir en la vida, y que nos movemos o tenemos impulsos hacia las cosas. Por ello, actuamos de una manera o de otra, sirviéndonos y prestando cierta validez a impresiones de nuestros sentidos, frente a otras que no nos merecen confianza. Esto es lo que quiere decir Sexto, cuando advierte que el escéptico tiene un criterio no para distinguir lo verdadero (...)
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  19. Searching for the Ideal of Felicity in Ancient Skepticism.Andrej Kalas - 2010 - Filozofia 65 (5):499-503.
     
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  20. The anthropological argument : The rediscovery of ancient skepticism in modern thought.Danilo Marcondes - 2009 - In Maia Neto, José Raimundo, Gianni Paganini & John Christian Laursen (eds.), Skepticism in the modern age: building on the work of Richard Popkin. Boston: Brill.
     
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    Skeptic purgatives: Therapeutic arguments in ancient skepticism.Martha Craven Nussbaum - 1991 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 29 (4):521-557.
  22. Part one: Montaigne and his skeptical background. The anthropological argument : the rediscovery of ancient skepticism in modern thought.Danilo Marcondes - 2009 - In Maia Neto, José Raimundo, Gianni Paganini & John Christian Laursen (eds.), Skepticism in the modern age: building on the work of Richard Popkin. Boston: Brill.
     
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  23. Epoche as perfection : Montaigne's view of ancient skepticism.Jos R. Maia Neto - 2004 - In Maia Neto, José Raimundo & Richard H. Popkin (eds.), Skepticism in Renaissance and post-Renaissance thought: new interpretations. Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity Books.
     
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    In Defense of an Unpopular Interpretation of Ancient Skepticism.Thomas A. Blackson - 2005 - History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 8 (1):69-82.
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  25. The Ancients, the Vulgar, and Hume's Skepticism.Maria Magoula Adamos - 2014 - In Patricia Hanna (ed.), Anthology of Philosophical Studies. ATINER. pp. 5-15.
    Section III of part IV of Book I of Hume's Treatise entitled “Of the ancient philosophy” has been virtually ignored by most Hume scholars. Although philosophers seem to concentrate on sections II and VI of part IV and pay little or no attention to section III, the latter section is paramount in showing how serious Hume's skepticism is, and how Hume's philosophy, contrary to his intention, is far removed from "the sentiments of the vulgar". In this paper I (...)
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  26. Ancient greek skepticism.Harold Thorsrud - 2004 - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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    The politics of skepticism in the ancients, Montaigne, Hume, and Kant.John Christian Laursen - 1992 - New York: E.J. Brill.
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    The Ancient Roots of Hume's Skepticism?Kostas Kalimtzis - 1995 - Philosophical Inquiry 17 (3-4):13-22.
  29. Skepticism : Ancient ‘East’ and Modern ‘West’.Bina Gupta - 1981 - Indian Philosophical Quarterly 9 (1):29.
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    Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present.Diego E. Machuca & Baron Reed (eds.) - 2018 - New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
    Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present is an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the entire history of skepticism. Divided chronologically into ancient, medieval, renaissance, modern, and contemporary periods, and featuring 50 specially-commissioned chapters from leading philosophers, this comprehensive volume is the first of its kind.
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    Academic Skepticism in Early Modern Philosophy.Maia Neto & José Raimundo - 1997 - Journal of the History of Ideas 58 (2):199-220.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Academic Skepticism in Early Modern PhilosophyJosé R. Maia NetoAncient skepticism was more influential in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries than it had ever been before. Thanks to the groundwork of Charles B. Schmitt and Richard H. Popkin on the influence of ancient skepticism in early modern philosophy and to the extensive research that followed their lead, skepticism is now recognized as having played a (...)
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    The Originality of Cartesian Skepticism: Did It Have Ancient or Mediaeval Antecedents?José Luis Bermúdez - 2000 - History of Philosophy Quarterly 17 (4):333 - 360.
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    Which School of Ancient Greco-Roman Philosophy is Most Appropriate for Life in a Time of COVID-19?Michael Chase - 2021 - Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 5 (1):7-31.
    The author argues that ancient Skepticism may be most suited to deal with two crises in the Age of COVID-19: both the physical or epidemiological aspects of the pandemic, and the epistemological and ethical crisis of increasing disbelief in the sciences. Following Michel Bitbol, I suggest one way to mitigate this crisis of faith may be for science to become more epistemically modest, renouncing some of its claims to describe reality as it objectively is, and adopting an “intransitive” (...)
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  34. Skepticism: a contemporary reader.Keith DeRose & Ted A. Warfield (eds.) - 1999 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Recently, new life has been breathed into the ancient philosophical topic of skepticism. The subject of some of the best and most provocative work in contemporary philosophy, skepticism has been addressed not only by top epistemologists but also by several of the world's finest philosophers who are most known for their work in other areas of the discipline. Skepticism: A Contemporary Reader brings together the most important recent contributions to the discussion of skepticism. Covering major (...)
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    Academic Skepticism in Early Modern Philosophy.Jose R. Maia Neto - 1997 - Journal of the History of Ideas 58 (2):199.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Academic Skepticism in Early Modern PhilosophyJosé R. Maia NetoAncient skepticism was more influential in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries than it had ever been before. Thanks to the groundwork of Charles B. Schmitt and Richard H. Popkin on the influence of ancient skepticism in early modern philosophy and to the extensive research that followed their lead, skepticism is now recognized as having played a (...)
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  36. Of Dreams, Demons, and Whirlpools: Doubt, Skepticism, and Suspension of Judgment in Descartes's Meditations.Jan Forsman - 2021 - Dissertation, Tampere University
    I offer a novel reading in this dissertation of René Descartes’s (1596–1650) skepticism in his work Meditations on First Philosophy (1641–1642). I specifically aim to answer the following problem: How is Descartes’s skepticism to be read in accordance with the rest of his philosophy? This problem can be divided into two more general questions in Descartes scholarship: How is skepticism utilized in the Meditations, and what are its intentions and relation to the preceding philosophical tradition? -/- I (...)
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  37. Uno scetticismo inquieto. Montaigne e i suoi modelli antichi [Restless skepticism. Montaigne and his ancient models].Charles Larmore - 2008 - la Società Degli Individui 33:142-158.
    Montaigne ha trasformato radicalmente l’idea di scetticismo tramandatagli dal­l’antichità. Egli ritiene infatti che la meta del pensiero non debba con­sistere nella quiete dello spirito, come so­stenevano gli scettici antichi, ben­sì che ci manteniamo fedeli alla condizione umana se riconosciamo la nostra fondamentale mutevolezza e arrischiamo prospettive differenti, senza tut­­tavia identificarci in esse al punto da non essere disposti a rivederle o ab­bandonarle.Montaigne had completely transformed the skepticism’s idea handed down to him from the past. While the ancient skeptics (...)
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    Sources of skepticism and dogmatism in ancient philosophy east and west.Richard Bosley - 2002 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 29 (3):397–413.
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    Skepticism and Language in Early Modern Philosophy: The Early Linguistic Turn.Danilo Marcondes - 2020 - Lanham: Lexington Books.
    This book shows that at the beginning of modern thought the revival of ancient skepticism challenged the powers of the intellect in making knowledge possible, opening the way to the consideration of language as an alternative to mental representation, thus leading to an early linguistic turn.
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    A Critical Introduction to Skepticism.Allan Hazlett - 2014 - New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
    Skepticism remains a central and defining issue in epistemology, and in the wider tradition of Western philosophy. To better understand the contemporary position of this important philosophical subject, Allan Hazlett introduces a range of topics, including: -/- • Ancient skepticism • skeptical arguments in the work of Hume and Descartes • Cartesian skepticism in contemporary epistemology • anti-skeptical strategies, including Mooreanism, nonclosure, and contextualism • additional varieties of skepticism • the practical consequences of Cartesian (...) -/- Presenting a comprehensive survey of the key problems, arguments, and theories, together with additional readings, A Critical Introduction to Skepticism is an ideal guide for students and scholars looking to understand how skepticism is shaping epistemology today. (shrink)
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  41. Skepticism and Disagreement.Markus Lammenranta - 2011 - In Diego E. Machuca (ed.), Pyrrhonism in Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary Philosophy. Springer. pp. 203-216.
    Though ancient Pyrrhonian skepticism is apparently based on disagreement, this aspect of skepticism has been widely neglected in contemporary discussion on skepticism. The paper provides a rational reconstruction of the skeptical argument from disagreement that can be found in the books of Sextus Empiricus. It is argued that this argument forms a genuine skeptical paradox that has no fully satisfactory resolution. All attempts to resolve it make knowledge or justified belief either intuitively too easy or impossible.
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  42. Skepticism: The Central Issues.Charles Landesman - 2002 - Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
    This book presents and analyzes the most important arguments in the history of Western philosophy's skeptical tradition. It demonstrates that, although powerful, these arguments are quite limited and fail to prove their core assertion that knowledge is beyond our reach. Argues that skepticism is mistaken and that knowledge is possible Dissects the problems of realism and the philosophical doubts about the accuracy of the senses Explores the ancient argument against a criterion of knowledge, Descartes' skeptical arguments, and skeptical (...)
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    The politics of skepticism in the Ancients, Montaigne, Hume and Kant.Beverley C. Southgate - 1994 - History of European Ideas 18 (5):778-779.
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    Academic Skepticism in Hume and Kant: A Ciceronian Critique of Metaphysics by Catalina González Quintero (review).Zuzana Parusniková - 2023 - Hume Studies 48 (2):346-350.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Academic Skepticism in Hume and Kant: A Ciceronian Critique of Metaphysics by Catalina González QuinteroZuzana ParusnikováCatalina González Quintero. Academic Skepticism in Hume and Kant: A Ciceronian Critique of Metaphysics. Cham: Springer, 2022. Pp. 268. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-3-030-89749-9. £99.99.This book is a valuable contribution to the rapidly expanding field of research into the formative impact of ancient skepticism on early modern philosophy. This new paradigm (...)
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    Michael Oakeshott’s Skepticism.Davide Orsi - 2015 - The European Legacy 20 (6):575-590.
    In the debate about Michael Oakeshott’s philosophy there is very little agreement on the theoretical and historical meaning of his skepticism. Starting from the assumption that skepticism is not a fixed theory but a tradition of ideas, this article draws on both published texts and archival materials to contend that Oakeshott developed his thought by confronting himself with, and even merging, different strands of skepticism: the ancient, the modern, as represented by Hobbes and Montaigne, and the (...)
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    Epistemic Angst: Radical Skepticism and the Groundlessness of Our Believing.Duncan Pritchard - 2015 - Princeton: Princeton University Press.
    Epistemic Angst offers a completely new solution to the ancient philosophical problem of radical skepticism—the challenge of explaining how it is possible to have knowledge of a world external to us. Duncan Pritchard argues that the key to resolving this puzzle is to realize that it is composed of two logically distinct problems, each requiring its own solution. He then puts forward solutions to both problems. To that end, he offers a new reading of Wittgenstein's account of the (...)
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    Which School of Ancient Greco-Roman Philosophy is Most Appropriate for Life in a Time of COVID-19?John Michael Chase - 2021 - Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 5 (1):7-31.
    The author argues that ancient Skepticism may be most suited to deal with two crises in the Age of COVID-19: both the physical or epidemiological aspects of the pandemic, and the epistemological and ethical crisis of increasing disbelief in the sciences. Following Michel Bitbol, I suggest one way to mitigate this crisis of faith may be for science to become more epistemically modest, renouncing some of its claims to describe reality as it objectively is, and adopting an “intransitive” (...)
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  48. Self-Completing Skepticism: On Hegel's Sublation of Pyrrhonism.Miles Hentrup - 2018 - Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 23 (1):105-123.
    In his 1802 article for the Critical Journal, “Relationship of Skepticism to Philosophy,” Hegel attempts to articulate a form of skepticism that is “at one with every true philosophy.” Focusing on the priority that Hegel gives to ancient skepticism over its modern counterpart, Michael Forster and other commentators suggest that it is Pyrrhonism that Hegel views as one with philosophy. Since Hegel calls attention to the persistence of dogmatism even in the work of Sextus Empiricus, however, (...)
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    Renaissance Skepticism.Margaret Matthews - 2022 - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
    Renaissance Skepticism The term “Renaissance skepticism” refers to a diverse range of approaches to the problem of knowledge that were inspired by the revitalization of Ancient Greek Skepticism in fifteenth through sixteenth century Europe. Much like its ancient counterpart, Renaissance skepticism refers to a wide array of epistemological positions rather than a single doctrine or … Continue reading Renaissance Skepticism →.
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    Was Pyrrho the Founder of Skepticism[REVIEW]Renata Ziemińska - 2011 - Polish Journal of Philosophy 5 (1):149-156.
    The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism. R. Bett (Ed.), New York: Cambridge University Press 2010, pp. 380+xii, ISBN 780521697545. -/- The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism, edited by Richard Bett, consists of an Introduction and fifteen papers written by international authors (three of them have been diligently translated into English by the editor). The volume presents the major figures of ancient skepticism and the major interpretational problems. Separate papers are devoted to Pyrrho of Elis (Svavar Hrafn (...)
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