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Scepticism (Paperback)
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Scepticism (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Epistemology
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Originally published in 1968. Scepticism is generally regarded as a
position which, if correct, would be disastrous for our everyday
and scientific beliefs. According to this view, a sceptical
argument is one that leads to the intuitively false conclusion that
we cannot know anything. But there is another, much neglected and
more radical form of scepticism, Pyrrhonism, which neither denies
nor accepts the possibility of knowledge and is to be regarded not
as a philosophical position so much as the expression of a
philosophical way of life. Professor Naess argues that, given a
sympathetic interpretation, Sextus Empiricus's outline of
Pyrrhonian scepticism provides the essentials of a genuine and
rational sceptical point of view. He begins with a brief account of
Pyrrhonism, then goes on to argue for the psychological possibility
of this kind of scepticism, defending it against common objections,
and examining some of its implications. The last two chapters
provide detailed support for the rationality of Pyrrhonism, drawing
mainly on certain methodological distinctions in semantics which
both justify the Pyrrhonist's failure to make assertions and
restrict the scope of recent epistemological arguments against
scepticism in such a way as to modify severely the conclusions
based on them.
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