Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
933510 Journal of Pragmatics 2011 6 Pages PDF
Abstract

The author presents an argument against Radical Scepticism based on an insight into the semantic structure and properties of ‘doubt’, in particular, on the statement of self-contradictoriness of(i)* a doubts that p and a doubts that ∼p.Full-size tableTable optionsView in workspaceDownload as CSVIt appears that the Radical Sceptic must embrace, in just any finite statement of his/her doubt, the initial claim that s/he does know that s/he neither says that p nor says that ∼p and that s/he does say that s/he neither says that p nor says that ∼p.

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