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Regress

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Foundationalism versus coherentism

a why-chain of justification can run forever, loop back on itself, or stop at a belief that needs no further defense, and foundationalism and coherentism are the two dominant answers for how it stops or holds, though a minority position accepts the endless chain instead.

6 min

Concept

Skepticism and its limits

someone can grant, honestly, that they cannot prove they are not dreaming right now, or being deceived by something far more powerful than they are, and then get up and act on the ordinary world anyway; a skeptical argument has to say what that gap costs the person who takes the doubt seriously enough to press it all the way.

5 min