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Albrecht, Michael (Trier RWG) [German version] A. Introduction (CT) Since Eduard Zeller's Die Philosophie der Griechen (vol. 3/1, Tübingen 1852; Outlines of the History of Greek Philosophy, 2000), two forms of scepticism have been distinguished:  Pyrrhonian and Academic Scepticism. Yet the terms 'scepticism' and 'Pyrrhonism' had previously been used as synonyms, and this still holds true in France. The division current since the Renaissance is as follows: dogmatics (who claim to know something), academics (who, like Socr…