A strong current of skepticism developed in late seventeenth-century Europe, whose adherents asserted that:
A) one should believe in nothing.
B) all beliefs are relative, varying in time, place, and culture.
C) the only certain knowledge was to be found in science.
D) only a pessimistic outlook was realistic.
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