Re: MD Squonk wrote a Review

From: Matt the Enraged Endorphin (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 24 2003 - 18:13:07 GMT

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    Squonk,

    I think you've confused the philosophical position of the skeptic with some
    other heuristic strawman, perhaps a nihilist. The epistemological skeptic
    I'm referring to wants to know how you know. For instance, if you say,
    "Essay A is better than essay B," the skeptic will hound you with question
    after question of, "How do you know?" He is skeptical about your
    certainty. An easily refuted position would be the person who denies that
    he cannot distinguish between varying levels of value. The more difficult
    person to tangle with is the one who questions your certainty, especially
    certainty about intuited entities.

    Matt

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