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Bayle's connections with Locke, Leibniz, Kant and the Enlightenment have already been at least suggested.

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Bayle's direct arguments on behalf of toleration are not very convincing, however, at least not when taken in isolation.

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Moreover, such was Bayle's pessimistic view of life that it was no merely theoretical issue.

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Whatever his intentions, this impulse toward modern atheism was Bayle's greatest single influence.

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If there is the occasional standoff, Bayle's attitude is one of regret and patience, for he is interested in overcoming doubt, not generating it.

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“Zeno” Hume takes Bayle's tripartite division of the possible ways that space and time might be constituted: from mathematical points, or from physical points, or as infinitely divisible.

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Second, Hume is supposed to have been influenced by Bayle's historical account of the types of skepticism and his own use of skeptical argument in attacking orthodox positions.

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Bayle's last years were spent in continued theological debate, now primarily with liberal coreligionists such as Leclerc.

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An instructive curiosity is Bayle's handling of this case from the point of view of the impostor.

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A case can be made that the logic of Bayle's various positions on toleration, evil, truth, substance and accident, lead ineluctably to atheism.

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