The Epistemic Injustice of Gaslighting

Socrates himself would be also potentially a gas lighter because that's what he does, right? He goes around Athens constantly making people question all their beliefs and claiming that he himself has no positive beliefs in anything. But there is never really a point in Socrates's life at which he questions his own ability to reason or argue. So it's like a refusal to engage with the person who's questioning their own reality sort of like on equal footing but instead using their doubt as an opportunity.

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