PHI 3170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Semantic Externalism, Coherentism, Ordinary Language Philosophy
13 Dec 2013
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Descartes thinks he"s found an indubitable belief from which he can build all following beliefs. Skepticism was developed as a method of questioning beliefs. During the enlightenment having strong premises were sufficient for belief. Different forms of skepticism usually asserting the impossibility of knowledge either of. It was expected that you have strong and unwavering faith (antithetical stance) something (local) or at all (general/global) Sometimes the assertion is you can"t know the claim (local) Sometimes the assertion that it doesn"t exist (global) Someone making metaphysical assertion is claiming to know something about the world (where the thing under question exists or not) It"s easier to defend epistemic skepticism (claim: i don"t know) Causation vs. reasons to doubt causation (account for each) The skeptic will make an assertion that our structure (cognitive, etc. ) can"t help but leap to this conclusion. Simplifies assumptions, which it is not entitled to make.
