RE: Is evidentialism justified?
January 4, 2011 at 12:11 pm
(This post was last modified: January 4, 2011 at 12:22 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(January 4, 2011 at 12:05 pm)Stempy Wrote: If only you would doubt your skepticism in the same way that you doubt every other belief, then you would see that this statement is equally without justification or indeed any merit whatsoever.
I don't expect justification because it leads to fallacy and I do doubt my skepticism, in the sense I question it (and I doubt my doubts all the time) : You are assuming I don't.
Quote:then you would see that this statement is equally without justification or indeed any merit whatsoever.
When an answer leads to an infinite regress, i.e. question begging, or when it leads to circular reasoning: That answer is going nowhere.
Some things are tautological. No, scrap that - ALL things are tautological. Things are themselves and never not themselves by definition: You can doubt that but then you're addressing something else. This is why I don't expect justification there. Logic itself must be right otherwise it's not logical and so not logic.
