By Charles Landesman
- Argues that skepticism is fallacious and that wisdom is possible
- Dissects the issues of realism and the philosophical doubts in regards to the accuracy of the senses
- Explores the traditional argument opposed to a criterion of information, Descartes' skeptical arguments, and skeptical arguments utilized to inductive inference and self-knowledge
- Uses Moore's evidence of an exterior global and the reliabilist notion of information to demonstrate that the normal skeptical arguments fail to fulfill their mark.
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