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Roderick Chisholm Skepticism Of Knowledge

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Do we truly know the truth? If we do know this truth, is this truth what gathers and presents to us as what we would call knowledge? I say that indeed we do not know the truth and that rather we should be skeptic of what and how the truth determines knowledge. In this paper I will defend skepticism by providing supporting evidence from “The Problem of Criterion” to state that we should be skeptic of what knowledge is. I will first speak of “The Problem of Criterion” and how Roderick Chisholm clarifies each of the three sides of knowledge. Next, I will then provide an argument from the Methodist and particularisms side as in why skepticisms are begging the question rather than answering the question of what knowledge really is. Lastly, I will accept the argument and provide my own objection to the objections of Methodism and particularism. …show more content…

The first option of knowledge is that there is no direct answer to what we know about knowledge, the extent of that knowledge, how we decide on knowledge and the criteria’s of knowledge; this option is called skepticism (Chisholm, 1973.) The second option of knowledge is Methodism in which directly answers how we were able to obtain knowledge (Chisholm, 1973.) The third option of knowledge relies in the idea of particularism that pertains to what we already know (Chisholm, 1973.) Chisholm, states that neither of the options are the correct or incorrect as we have things we know and can question this knowing (Chisholm,

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