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Skepticism - Coggle Diagram
Skepticism
Arguments in favor
Brain in the vat
It says that we can not differentiate between real life or stimulus given by a computer and that we are just a brain in a vat.
The possibility of error
It says that if someone makes mistake then we can never be sure of something else that he says or admits.
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Transmissibility
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Thus adding this with skeptical scenarios it argues that if you don't know skeptical scenarios are true then you can not know ordinary things.
Arguments against
It is self refuting
If we can't have knowledge, we can't have knowledge about skepticism.
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Standards for knowledge
Skepticism has really high standards for knowledge, thus negating partial knowledge.
This happens because skepticism relies on the assumption that we need absolute certainty for knowledge
Moorean response
It says that the skeptic could not give reasons to accept the premise that we don't know that we aren't in a skeptical scenario and we should rely on common sense
Concept
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Types
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Local
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ie. Theology, quantum physics, etc