## Metadata - Author: [[Terence Cave]] - Full Title: How to Read Montaigne - Category: #books ## Highlights - Renaissance writers were familiar with the notion of the ‘paradox’, which they understood in the classical and etymological sense as a proposition contrary to common opinion, rather than in the modern sense as a contradiction in terms. Pyrrhonism is a perpetual paradox, an ever-renewed shock to the habits of mind by means of which we chart our approximate way through the field of knowledge. ([Location 589](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00LCMMRA6&location=589))