"Excerpt from Skepticism Reader" Self-Quiz

. According to DeRose and Warfield, skeptical hypotheses are meant to explain

how an evil demon could be deceiving you right now.

how to know that something is true with absolute certainty.

how we might be wrong about what we think we know.

how knowledge is possible for finite creatures like us.

. Skeptical arguments are meant to show that

everything we think we know is false.

certain skeptical hypotheses are probable.

our beliefs about the external world are unreliable.

we don't know what we ordinarily take ourselves to know.

. According to DeRose and Warfield, skeptical arguments are powerful because

they invoke the imagination.

there is strong evidence for skeptical hypotheses.

they are valid and each premise has support.

they make us question our own existence.

. According to DeRose and Warfield, Moore's response is unsatisfactory because

it fails to prove that we do know what we ordinarily take ourselves to know.

it doesn't provide evidence for the existence of the external world.

it fails to explain why the skeptic's premises seem so plausible.

it doesn't prove that the skeptic's conclusion is false.

. Barry Stroud believes that skeptical arguments

are utterly unconvincing.

raise a problem about the human condition.

establish their conclusion, being valid arguments with true premises.

are interesting, but should not be taken seriously.

. Skeptical arguments attempt to show that many of our ordinary beliefs are false.

True

False

. Moore's response asserts that skeptical arguments are logically invalid.

True

False

. Skeptics often claim that we don't know that a certain skeptical hypothesis is false.

True

False

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