"Should we then say we just know that we are awake, or that dogs are sensate creatures? Not I think if we offer that as a response to the sceptic while accepting as exhaustive his division between absence of doubt that is justified and absence of doubt that is a mere psychological phenomenon. In such circumstances to say that we just know there are other minds or that we are awake as self-evident warrant for the fact that we don't doubt these things is, I think, worthless. In the absence of an independent account of the faculty that so marvelously assures us that our certainty is justified, no mere psychological phenomenon, one mays as well, as children sometimes do, stamp our feet to declaim out virtue."
2007-11-21
02:30:47
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