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68. What's wrong with extreme philosophical skepticism?

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>From ky Chen:

if you go to the extreme then you are denying everything, if that is the case then it would be like descartes in his first meditation. everything is put to doubt and you take away any sort of knowledge to build upon by questioning everything around you.

 

rm says: Yes. Hume refers to this as a paralyzing position.



 

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