ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Solipsism, Anaphylaxis, Pyrrhonism
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Undermines the entire idea that we know anything: pyrrhonian scepticism, cartesian scepticism, local. The holocaust is not wrong or not wrong, climate change. There could be a malicious demon who is deceiving us about the existence of all external items. If the demon existed, our experiences could differ vastly form reality: we cannot know if we are being deceived all the time, neuroscientists/ brain-in-a-vat. Instead of a demon, neuroscience could advance so much in the future that scientists could completely simulate our every experience: mooreanism, observation: Hands are external objects , therefore the external world exists : responses to you can"t be sure that you have a hand . If we disagree on what a hand is, we can"t work together. Conclusive evidence: he should be able to make this claim because it is very basic, common sense, everyday sensory epistemic observations should have more weight than complicated logic, closure proposition to transfer basic claims to complex concepts.
