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Ideas for 'The Case for Closure', 'Categories' and 'Outlines of Pyrrhonism'

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11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 2. Common Sense Certainty

1889	If an argument has an absurd conclusion, we should not assent to the absurdity, but avoid the absurd argument [Sext.Empiricus]

19553

Commitment to 'I have a hand' only makes sense in a context where it has been doubted [Hawthorne]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 1. Perceptual Realism / c. Representative realism

1871	Whether honey is essentially sweet may be doubted, as it is a matter of judgement rather than appearance [Sext.Empiricus]