Sceptical possibilities? No worries

Synthese 168 (1):97 - 118 (2009)
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This paper undermines a paradigmatic form of sceptical reasoning. It does this by describing, and then dialectically dissolving, the sceptical-independence presumption, upon which that form of sceptical reasoning relies.

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10.1007/s11229-008-9332-8

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