On the Standards-Variantist Solution to Skepticism
The skeptical puzzle consists of three independently plausible yet jointly inconsistent claims: (A) S knows a certain ordinary proposition op; (B) S does not know the denial of a certain skeptical hypothesis sh; and (C) S knows that op only if S knows that not-sh. The variantist solution (to the ske...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Опубликовано: |
2017
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International journal for the study of skepticism
Год: 2017, Том: 7, Выпуск: 3, Страницы: 173-198 |
| Нормированные ключевые слова (последовательности): | B
Скептицизм
/ Эпистемическая логика
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| Другие ключевые слова: | B
epistemic contextualism
standards variantism
position variantism
skepticism
pragmatic penetration
intellectualism
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| Итог: | The skeptical puzzle consists of three independently plausible yet jointly inconsistent claims: (A) S knows a certain ordinary proposition op; (B) S does not know the denial of a certain skeptical hypothesis sh; and (C) S knows that op only if S knows that not-sh. The variantist solution (to the skeptical puzzle) claims that (A) and not-(B) are true in the ordinary context, but false in the skeptical one. Epistemic contextualism has offered a standards-variantist solution, which is the most prominent variantist solution on the market. In this paper, I argue that the standards-variantist solution in general (and the contextualist solution in particular) is epistemically uninteresting. Proponents of the variantist solution should opt for the position-variantist solution instead. I will discuss some important implications of my findings. |
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| Объем: | Online-Ressource |
| ISSN: | 2210-5700 |
| Второстепенные работы: | In: International journal for the study of skepticism
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22105700-00001224 |
