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'reports', 'Meditations' and 'Farewell to Reality: fairytale physics'
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13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 1. Justification / a. Justification issues
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If we need a criterion of truth, we need to know whether it is the correct criterion [Pyrrho, by Fogelin]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / a. Foundationalism
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To achieve good science we must rebuild from the foundations [Descartes]
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Only one certainty is needed for progress (like a lever's fulcrum) [Descartes]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism
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Even if my body and objects are imaginary, there may be simpler things which are true [Descartes]
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The Pyrrhonians attacked the dogmas of professors, not ordinary people [Pyrrho, by Fogelin]
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Descartes can't begin again, because sceptics doubt cognitive processes as well as beliefs [Pollock/Cruz on Descartes]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 3. Illusion Scepticism
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If pain is felt in a lost limb, I cannot be certain that a felt pain exists in my real limbs [Descartes]
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We correct sense errors with other senses, not intellect [Mersenne on Descartes]
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The senses can only report, so perception errors are in the judgment [Gassendi on Descartes]
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It is prudent never to trust your senses if they have deceived you even once [Descartes]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 4. Demon Scepticism
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God may have created nothing, but made his creation appear to me as it does now [Descartes]
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To achieve full scepticism, I imagine a devil who deceives me about the external world and my own body and senses [Descartes]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 5. Dream Scepticism
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Waking actions are joined by memory to all our other actions, unlike actions of which we dream [Descartes]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 6. Scepticism Critique
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Academics said that Pyrrhonians were guilty of 'negative dogmatism' [Pyrrho, by Fogelin]
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I can only sense an object if it is present, and can't fail to sense it when it is [Descartes]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 1. Relativism
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Judgements vary according to local culture and law (Mode 5) [Pyrrho, by Diog. Laertius]
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Objects vary according to which sense perceives them (Mode 3) [Pyrrho, by Diog. Laertius]
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Animals vary in their feelings and judgements (Mode 1) [Pyrrho, by Diog. Laertius]
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Perception varies with madness or disease (Mode 4) [Pyrrho, by Diog. Laertius]
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Perception of things depends on their size or quantity (Mode 8) [Pyrrho, by Diog. Laertius]
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Perception of objects depends on surrounding conditions (Mode 6) [Pyrrho, by Diog. Laertius]
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Perception is affected by expectations (Mode 9) [Pyrrho, by Diog. Laertius]
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Perception varies with viewing distance and angle (Mode 7) [Pyrrho, by Diog. Laertius]
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Perception and judgement depend on comparison (Mode 10) [Pyrrho, by Diog. Laertius]
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Individuals vary in responses and feelings (Mode 2) [Pyrrho, by Diog. Laertius]
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