Skeptical Appeal: The Source-Content Bias
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Skeptical Appeal: The Source-Content Bias
Radical skepticism is the view that we know nothing or at least next to nothing. Nearly no one actually believes that skepticism is true. Yet it has remained a serious topic of discussion for millennia and it looms large in popular culture. What explains its persistent and widespread appeal? How does the skeptic get us to doubt what we ordinarily take ourselves to know? I present evidence from ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognitive Science
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0364-0213
DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12153