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Skepticism

Skepticism You believe something, but you don’t know it. So do you really know anything? Some believe the answer lies within the arguments of skepticism. I start by analyzing the argument from perspective. Do you believe that what you see is what it is? Let’s say you and I are sitting on the couch looking at a picture on the wall. We both have different opinions of what we are looking at. And there’s more to the picture than what we really see. Many factors impel us to have different opinions. Such as the position from where we are sitting, to personal views and believes. But in return without hesitation we both believe that the object is on the wall. A person has no reason to doubt even though they lack evidence. So since we have different views, how can we be certain who’s perspective is right? We now ask is there even a picture? The naīve realist tells us the way it looks is the way it looks. Yet the realist answers yes, and the idealist no, the skeptic answers who’s perspective is correct? The skeptic then asks if the picture is there, than what’s it like. But can you make a connection between what something looks like and what it is? The naīve realist maintains that we cannot make a connection between what something looks like and what it is. Without giving it much thought you answer with a quick yes. The skeptic would come back with how do you really know you are where you think you are? And how do you really know that this is a picture you’re looking at? Since these questions leave room to The argument for skepticism also takes a look at hallucination. Hallucination is defined as a non-true experience. Sometimes we see things that are not really there. Like perspective there are factors that cause hallucination such as taking medication and lack of sleep. When we have such an experience is there anything that let’s us know that it’s real? How do we know that were not really being fooled? Since there is nothing to verify what we are seeing or thinking, how do we know if any experience is valid? Again the skeptic view causes us to have doubt, leaving us not knowing. The quest for knowledge is like trying to determine the beginning of the universe, we may never know. It doesn’t help that the skeptic tries to provide reasons to doubt. So do we go by science or our own thoughts on what is real. The skeptic presumes that there is no way to get out of our brain to see if the world is how we really think it is. And that science may be revised one day. I believe that the things I do, say, and feel are all real. Even without evidence. We even take things for granted that another human already discovered or invented based upon their personal views and opinions. It’s similar to attending a Baptist church when you’ve been raised Catholic. You believe in church, God, and living your life according to rules that God, set for you to follow. Then one day you stumble into a Baptist church, you listen to the preacher and realize that everything he preaches is on his own belief. You sit there thinking this can’t be right and how can people follow something that comes from a human perspective and not from God. I realize at this point that there is a difference, but why don’t I apply this type of thought to my everyday life? I guess that’s just the way that we all live. Most of us don’t even have the time to stop and think about knowledge in the way a skeptic does. But if we did we may realize that we don’t know as much as we think we do. Bibliography:

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