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Margaret L. Wiley. Creative Sceptics. New York: Humanities Press, 1967. 352 pp. $8.75.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Margaret Byard
Margaret Byard*
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Columbia University
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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1968 , pp. 341 - 344
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1968

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1 Mental attitudes of the skeptics are expresed in the Greek terms, isosthenia, the necessity for balancing every statement by its opposite; epoché, the holding of such opposites in suspended judgement; and ataraxia, peace of mind, the ultimate achievement for the skeptic as for the Stoic and Epicurean.

2 In a letter to John Galsworthy, Nov. 11, 1901, in Marrot, H. F., Life and Letters of Joseph Conrad(London, 1935), p. 129.Google Scholar