A refutation of global scepticism
Gemes, Ken (2009) A refutation of global scepticism. Analysis 69 (2), pp. 218-219. ISSN 0003-2638.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/analys/anp004
Abstract
Various possibilities, that one is dreaming, that one is being deceived by a deceitful demon, that one is a brain in the vat being stimulated to think one has a body and is in a regular world, have been invoked to show that all one's experience-based beliefs might be false. Descartes in Meditation I advises that in order not to lapse into his careless everyday view of things he, or at least his meditator, should pretend that all his experience-based beliefs, indeed all his...
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Item Type: | Article |
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School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies |
Depositing User: | Administrator |
Date Deposited: | 16 Dec 2010 09:25 |
Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 16:53 |
URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/2701 |
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