PHL340H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Semantic Memory, Dogma, Episodic Memory
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Skeptics about some domain deny that, for any propositions p about that domain, we cannot know that p is true. Skeptical scenario (external world): brain in a vat. Skeptical scenario (past): the dawn example from buffy. Moore"s funny idea of: here"s one hand and here"s another. Hence there are external object : 2 ideas here. I"m far more certain about the reality of my hands than what any skeptic argument could be. P1: you either don"t believe you"re being controlled by a demon and if you do you have perceptual justifications to believe so. Pryor disagrees with the above and says that the reason we are justified in our beliefs is not cause of prior reasons but cause of an immediate justification (in burge"s terminology we are entitled) Perceptual dogmatism (approximate): when it perceptually seems that p (you have a perceptual state for p) than you are justified for believing p. Pryor"s dogmatism is a kind of foundationalism about justification.
