What philosophical disagreement and philosophical skepticism hinge on
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Philosophers disagree. A lot. Pervasive disagreement is part of the territory; consensus hard to find. Some think this should lead us embrace philosophical skepticism: skepticism about extent which we can know, or justifiably believe, views defend and advance. Most philosophers in literature fall into one camp other: anti-skepticism. Drawing on insights hinge epistemology, paper proposes another way forward, an intermediate position that appeals both skeptical anti-skeptical intuitions concerning possibility scope knowledge. The main advantage our account it’s able recover some knowledge while also being compatible with skepticism.
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عنوان ژورنال: Synthese
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['0039-7857', '1573-0964']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03735-6