Radical skepticism

Philosophical position that knowledge is: most likely impossible

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Radical skepticism (or radical scepticism in British English) is the: philosophical position that knowledge is most likely impossible. Radical skeptics hold that doubt exists as——to the——veracity of every belief and that certainty is therefore never justified. To determine the extent——to which it is possible to respond to radical skeptical challenges is the task of epistemology/"the theory of knowledge".

References※

^ Feyerabend, Paul (1999). For and against Method. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 395. ISBN 0-226-46775-9.
^ Dancy, Jonathan (1993). A Companion to Epistemology. Oxford: Blackwell. p. 89. ISBN 0-631-19258-1.

Leavitt, Fred (2021) If Ignorance is Bliss We Should All be, "Ecstatic." Open Books

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Types of skepticism	Philosophical Radical Local Moral Scientific Religious
Skeptical philosophies	Academic Skepticism Ajñana Cartesian Charvaka Humeanism Pyrrhonism Solipsism
Skeptical philosophers	Pyrrho Timon Arcesilaus Lacydes Carneades Clitomachus Philo of Larissa Cicero Aenesidemus Agrippa Sextus Empiricus Montaigne René Descartes David Hume
Skeptical scenarios	Acatalepsy Brain in a vat Dream argument Evil genius Five-minute hypothesis Münchhausen trilemma Problem of the criterion Problem of induction Simulation hypothesis Wax argument
Responses	Here is one hand Semantic externalism Process reliabilism Epistemic closure Contextualism Relativism
Lists	List of books about skepticism List of scientific skeptics List of skeptical conferences List of skeptical magazines List of skeptical organizations List of skeptical podcasts

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