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Quick questions on The problem of knowledge and scepticism - SQA Higher Philosophy Knowledge and Doubt
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what is your justification?Show answer
You see the tree. The sceptic now presses: could your senses be wrong, could you be dreaming, could an evil demon be deceiving you? If you cannot rule these out, your justification is not certain, so on a strict standard you do not know there is a tree, you only have a strongly held, probably true belief.
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State the three conditions of the justified true belief account of knowledge. [3 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Give one example of a sceptical doubt about a source of knowledge. [2 marks]
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