Abstract

Modern-day heirs of the Cartesian revolution have been fascinated by the thought that one could utilize certain hypotheses that one is dreaming, deceived by an evil demon, or a brain in a vat to argue at one fell swoop that one does not know, is not justified in believing, or ought not believe most if not all of what one currently believes about the world. A good part of the interest and mystique of these discussions arises from the contention that the seeds of such arguments lie in our ordinary epistemic practices, so that external world skepticism can arise "from within". But is this contention correct? I doubt it.

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