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Scepticism Revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Corbin Fowler
Corbin Fowler
Affiliation:
University Of Wisconsin Oshkosh
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Philosophy , Volume 62 , Issue 241 , July 1987 , pp. 385 - 388
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1987

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References

1 C., Fowler, ‘Kekes, and Johnson on Rationality’, Philosophical Quarterly (1978).Google Scholar

2 H., Meynell, ‘Scepticism Reconsidered’, Philosophy (1984), 431.Google Scholar

3 Ibid., 433.

4 H. Meynell, art. cit., 435.

5 Ibid., 437.

6 Ibid., 439.

7 Ibid., 434.

8 I would include here under ‘evidence’ the consideration of the consequences of holding a belief B as opposed to the consequences of rejecting B. I think pragmatic/instrumental considerations should count as rational evidence.