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Francisco Sanches - Biography
Francisco Sanches (c. – ) was a Portuguese philosopher and physician of Sephardi Jewish origin.
Early life and academic career
He was born in Tui, and baptized in Braga, Portugal, into the Catholic faith in or , to António Sanches, also a physician, and Filipa de Sousa.
Being of Jewish origin, even if converted, he was legally considered a New Christian.
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He studied in Braga until he was 12 years old, time when he moved to Bordeaux (France) with his parents, escaping the surveillance of the Portuguese Inquisition, where he continued his studies at the College de Guyenne.
He went on to study medicine in Rome (Italy) in , and, back in France, in Montpellier and Toulouse. He ended up, after , as a professor of philosophy and medicine at the University of Toulouse.
Main work and thought
In his Quod Nihil Scitur (That Nothing Is Known), written in and published in , he used the classical skeptical arguments to show that science, in the