What Can I Know? Multiple Choice

. According to Phillips, the skeptic's mistake is to

Deny the existence of an external world.

Doubt the existence of sense-data.

Raise trivial and impractical questions.

Posit sense-data as an intermediary between us and the external world.

. The problem with sense-data, according to Phillips, is that they

Can never provide sufficient justification for belief in an external world.

Provide sufficient justification for belief in an external world.

Cannot be defined.

Are immediately dismissed.

. Phillips rejects the distinction between

Experience and belief.

Sense-data and physical objects.

Assumptions and conclusions.

Evidence and non-evidence.

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