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Stephen Phillips, "Jewel of Reflection on the Truth about Epistemology: A Complete and Annotated Translation of the Tattva-cintā-maṇi" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

New Books in Philosophy

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The Sceptic Is Absolutely Right.

With repeated observations, we can secure knowledge of the relationship between smoke and fire. But there's a worry that what if there's a counter example out there? If we haven't checked for every possible counter example, what potential number of observations can secure that relation to at rigtso what is gongage to say about this? This is something s thank you. That was like, you know, batting practicelopich ha, ha. Ohehe he he has something very interesting, and, to my mind, correct to say on on this point. He says, look, the sceptic is absolutely right. Ah, we're talking about inference as a generator of knowledge

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