Meta‐Skepticism

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چکیده

The epistemological debate about radical skepticism has focused on whether our beliefs in apparently obvious claims, such as the claim that we have hands, amount to knowledge. Arguably, however, concept of knowledge is only one many knowledge-like concepts there are. If this correct, it follows even if satisfy knowledge, are other relevantly similar they fail satisfy. And might give us pause. After all, wonder: What so great happen have? Might be more important, epistemically speaking, investigate some instead? how should questions these understood? This paper discusses significance issues. In particular, a novel skeptical stance called ‘meta-skepticism’ introduced, which kind idea important than others. It suggested unclear form can avoided.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

سال: 2022

ISSN: ['0031-8205', '1933-1592']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12871