Davison on Skepticism: How not to Respond to the Skeptic

In his defense of a coherence theory of truth and knowledge, Donald Davidson insists that (i) we must take the objects of a belief to be the causes of that belief, and (ii) given the nature of beliefs, most of our be-liefs are veridical. As result, a response to skepticism is provided. If most of ou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Otávio Bueno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2005-12-01
Series:Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
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Online Access:http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/14541/13313