/philosophy/ - Philosophy

>>2777

Offer a solution to Sextus Empiricus' dilemma of the criterion without doing a Kantian ontological spin. If you can, you'll be famous in philosophy beyond anyone else (barring Hegel, he's got his own thing).

Real skepticism can't be defeated with reason, it is pure reason itself.

I am thinking, therefore I am completely certain I exist.

non-skeptics: 1

skeptics: 0

>>2781

That's an analytic truth, nobody really cares about those. What skepticism concerns is with how you know that you have truth. Truth here concerns the world.

Truth requires that you know the form of truth to be obtained already, and that you have a method of coherently grasping that truth and justifying it. Those are two contradictory positions. How do you know what truth looks like in order to even begin asking how to get it?

>>2781

How do I know you are thinking? How do I know that I am the originator of these thoughts, they could be holistic experience of external stimuli of which the true nature I could never know, as well as it's logic or lack thereof exist as more then our experience alone, and that indeed it is also wrong?

>>2781

What do you mean by I?

Any sort of self beyond thought is surely reliant on things subject to sceptical doubt (e.g. memory of past thoughts).