Sentence examples for skeptical arguments from inspiring English sources

Siger of Brabant, on the other hand, dealt directly with skepticism and skeptical arguments in his Impossibile 2 and his Questions on the Metaphysics.

Aquinas, as with Aristotle, exhibits no serious concerns with skepticism or with skeptical arguments.

As should be clear, slow switch arguments can be seen as skeptical arguments, where the skeptic raises the possibility that we are in Oscar's predicament.

Other philosophers refer to this view as "Cartesian skepticism" because of the skeptical arguments investigated by Descartes and his critics in the mid-17th century.

Given that the proponents of the various skeptical arguments to be discussed are mere local skeptics, they certainly appear to be offering arguments aimed at inducing philosophically reasonable belief in a local skeptical thesis regarding intuition.

Argument C is less threatening than some other skeptical arguments because, even if sound, generalizations of it to skepticism about other kinds of mental states are implausible.

Against Erasmus' skeptical arguments he employed arguments taken from ancient Stoic criticism of Academic skepticism, probably borrowed from a patristic source he knew well, St. Augustine's Contra Academicos (Boyle 1983 55 56).

As far as skepticism is concerned, Scotus is unconvinced by Henry's anti-skeptical arguments, but he thinks the threat of skepticism dangerous enough that he devotes considerable attention to arguing against the problem.

Should I point out the most precious contribution among the many he gave to contemporary philosophy, I would mention his anti-skeptical arguments, as embedded in his general theory of meaning and truth.

Besides the reductio, these are also applied to Moorean anti-skeptical arguments, Putnam's "brains-in-vats" argument, and others.

Crathorn is remembered for his theories of language and cognition, and for some anti-skeptical arguments strikingly similar to those found in Descartes' Meditations.