1) If S knows that p, then there is no possibility that S could have been wrong about p
2) For any belief that p, there is always at least a remote possibility that S could have been wrong about p (even if it is the cause that p is true)
c) No one ever knows any proposition p There is more than just one type …show more content…
The first way to do it is to just simply deny it. Although that way is easy to do it is not a strong way to go about it. The second way is to go about it how Vogel did. He rejected it by giving reasons that nevertheless does not show that skepticism is fake.
O: I seem to experience a physical world, the contents of which behave in regular and predictable ways.
E1 (RWH): There exists a physical world of material objects that cause me to have the experiences
E2 (DH): We are dreaming a physical world.
E3 (CSH): I am a brain in a vat being manipulated by a computer into “experiencing” a world that is a complete fake.
You can never determine which one is really true. The only thing that we can truly know for sure is that you have to exist. It is known as “I think, therefor I am”. It means that because you think then you have to exist.
Descartes was a religious highly man. His argument to External World Skepticism and just Skepticism in general is that he feels and senses material objects in the real world involuntarily. Descartes states that God makes objects in the material world and that God would not deceive