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What Skeptics Don't Know Refutes Them, Steven Luper Jan 1984

What Skeptics Don't Know Refutes Them, Steven Luper

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Skeptics usually argue that from the fact that (1) it is possible that you are in certain situations that I will call 'skeptical scenarios' where you would not know anything you believe by processing sensory information, it follows that (2) you do not know anything that you believe by processing sensory information no matter what circumstances you are in. Skeptical scenarios, which range from Descartes' deceitful demon to the modest Gettier case, are situations such that: if you were in one of them, (a) your sensory information would not be any different from the way it would be if you …