Skeptical hypotheses and 'omniscient' interpreters

Australasian Journal of Philosophy 71 (2):184 – 195 (1993)
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Abstract

An attempt to defend Davidson's omniscient interpreter argument against various attempts to show that it does not succeed in showing that most of our beliefs must be true. It doesn't argue that this is a good answer to skepticism.

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Steven L. Reynolds
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