Skepticism about the World: Part Two – Dismissive Responses

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We are finally in a position to consider dismissive responses to skepticism about the world. In Chapter 1 I defined “dismissive responses” as responses that either (a) do not engage skeptical arguments at all, or (b) engage them only superficially. Rather, such responses dismiss skeptical conclusions without paying serious attention to the reasoning that leads up to them. Because such responses fail to engage skeptical arguments seriously, they fail to locate the mistakes that the arguments actually make. This insures, in turn, that they miss the lessons that skeptical arguments can teach.

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