Where sceptics fail | with Alex O'Connor
Philosophy For Our Times
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The Limits of Skepticism
Half baked skepticism leads to this kind of conclusion because you question everything but never actually look for an answer on any of those things. You're left in this kind of pit of agnosticism about everything where you're completely vulnerable to believe anything that's put convincingly in front of you. I think you need to sort of focus on a particular area that you're interested in at the time and a skeptical of and look for the answer. This is again the Cartesian project a lot of people style Descartes as a skeptic and he was methodologically but he wasn't a skeptic in the way that people often paint him out to be.
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