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What makes a causal theory of content anti-skeptical?
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 56 (2):299-318 (1996)
Abstract
Recently some arguments against Cartesian-style skepticism have been based on causal theories of content. I hope to show that the relevance of causal theories of content to what we can know is conditional in a more complex way than has been recognized so far.My notes
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