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12 Cards in this Set
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Epistemology |
theory of kowledge |
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local scepticism |
say we can't know anything about a particular domain |
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radical scepticism |
we cant know that there is an external world (anything) |
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certainty argument |
sceptical argument - you cannot know P unless you are sure of P = you cant know anything without the highest degree of justification for it |
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infallibility |
sceptical argument - the impossibility of being mistaken |
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ignorance |
sceptical argument - you know P if you know not Q - we cannot be sure that we aren't hallucinating |
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Argument from analogy |
against scepticism - patterns in your behaviour link to the mind and the same pattern is exhibited by others so others also have a mind |
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inductive arguments |
where the premises support but don't entail the conclusion |
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Sunrise argument |
against scepticism - probable conclusion but not guaranteed |
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brown box argument |
Against scepticism - box A is brown and contains a book so all brown boxes contain books |
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Inference to the best explanation |
because i have a mind, the explanation that other shave a mind and aren't robots or androids is the best one |
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moor's argument against radical scepticism |
he knows that some things exist which automatically denies radical scepticism - if he can see his hands then they exist so they are in the external world |
