Analysis 72 (4):668-673 (2012)
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I argue that Cartesian skepticism about the external world leads to a vicious regress of skeptical attitudes, the only principled and unproblematic response to which requires refraining from taking the very first skeptical step.
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| Keywords | skepticism Cartesian skepticism epistemology dream argument Pyrrhonian skepticism evil demon |
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| DOI | 10.1093/analys/ans117 |
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