Objective Bayesianism and the Abductivist Response to Scepticism
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Abstract An important line of response to scepticism appeals the best explanation. But anti-sceptics have not engaged much with work on explanation in philosophy science. I plan investigate whether plausible assumptions about explanations really do favour anti-scepticism. will argue that there are ways constructing sceptical hypotheses which anti-scepticism, but size support for anti-scepticism is small.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Episteme
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1750-0117', '1742-3600']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2020.54