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Pierre Bayle

Also known as Peter Bayle, C L A A P D P, Monsieur C. L. A. A. P. D. P.

French philosopher and writer (1647–1706)

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Pierre Bayle was a male writer and philosopher of French and Belgian nationality. Born in 1647 and deceased in 1706, he worked in the fields of literature and philosophy. His recorded languages include French, Latin, and another form of French.

His notable works include *Dictionaire historique et critique*, *A philosophical commentary on these words of the Gospel, Luke XIV, 23*, *Epistola ad Caesarium monachum*, *A dissertation on the nature, effects, and consequences of the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost*, and *Œuvres diverses de Pierre Bayle*. Various sources list differing counts for his total works, ranging from 5 to 146.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1647
Died: 1706
Works: 146

Top works

Dictionaire historique et critique
A philosophical commentary on these words of the Gospel, Luke XIV, 23
Epistola ad Caesarium monachum ...
A dissertation on the nature, effects, and consequences of the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost
Œuvres diverses de Pierre Bayle

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Country: FR
Active from: 1932-04-27

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 12
Total plays: 91

Pierre Bayle (18 November 1647 – 28 December 1706) was a French philosopher and writer. Pierre Bayle was an Enlightenment scholar who argued that faith could not be justified by reason, on the grounds that God is incomprehensible to man. As one of his proofs he affirmed that no reasonable person could discern any sense in God's choice of a leader for the Jewish nation: King David was indisputably a liar, murderer, thief and adulterer. Bayle did deliberately attempt to convince people to use re

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Going deeper with convolutions
· 2015 · cited 32,858x
Classification of Surgical Complications
· 2004 · cited 28,212x
Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 23,393x
Outline of a Theory of Practice
· 1977 · cited 19,092x
Testing for a unit root in time series regression
· 1988 · cited 12,650x

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Authority record · VIAF

Lifespan: 1647–1706
Nationality: FR, BE
Role / Field: Spisovatele, Pisarze, Filozofowie, Filozofove, Escritores, Literatura
Language: fre, lat, fra
Gender: Male

Recorded by 35 libraries

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Quotes

“... l'exactitude de citer. C'est un talent plus rare que l'on ne pense.”
“Reason is like a runner who doesn't know that the race is over, or, like Penelope, constantly undoing what it creates.... It is better suited to pulling things down than to building them up, and better at discovering what things are not, than what they are.”
“There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. has been heard to say that the happy application of a verse of Virgil has deserved a talent.”
“If the Multiplicity of Religions prejudices the State, it proceeds from their not bearing with one another but on the contrary endeavouring each to crush and destroy the other by methods of Persecution. In a word, all the Mischief arises not from Toleration, but from the want of it.”

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Pierre Bayle, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Dictionaire historique et crítique

Dictionaire historique et critique .. - Tome premier [-quatrieme]

Entretiens de Maxime et de Themiste, ou reponse a l'Examen de la Theologie

Dictionaire historique et crítique

Oeuvres diverses

Oeuvres diverses de Mr. Pierre Bayle .. contenant tout ce que cet auteur a publié sur des matieres de Theologie, de Philosophie, de Critique, d'Histoire de Litterature ..

Oeuvres diverses de Mr. Pierre Bayle .. contenant tout ce que cet auteur a publié sur des matieres de Theologie, de Philosophie, de Critique, d'Histoire & de Litterature ..

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Encyclopedic overview

Pierre Bayle (/beɪl/; French: [pjɛʁ bɛl]; 18 November 1647 – 28 December 1706) was a French philosopher, author, and lexicographer. He is best known for his Historical and Critical Dictionary, whose publication began in 1697. Many of the more controversial ideas in the book were hidden away in the voluminous footnotes, or they were slipped into articles on seemingly uncontroversial topics. Bayle is commonly regarded as a forerunner of the Encyclopédistes of the mid-18th century.

A Huguenot, Bayle fled to the Dutch Republic in 1681 because of religious persecution in France. Bayle was a notable advocate of religious toleration, and his skeptical philosophy had a significant influence on the subsequent growth and development of the European Age of Enlightenment.

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