Abstract
The kind of errors we can imagine others making we can imagine ourselves making as well. This is one of the ways in which skeptical thoughts arise. After all, we have no trouble imagining situations in which others make modest errors. Indeed, we have no trouble imagining situations in which we manipulate them or their environment so as to induce error in them. Our literature, our movies, and our everyday lives are filled with examples of successful deceits. Moreover, it is natural to think that if we had the requisite skill and knowledge, we could extend these deceits so as to induce radical error in others. But if this is so, someone with the requisite skill and knowledge might do the same to us. We too might be radically deceived without being aware of it. I think that this line of reasoning is essentially correct, but there are those who believe the reasoning should be reversed. Donald Davidson, for example, argues that we could have
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