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Anonymous Tue May 12 14:34:55 2015 No.6530792 [Reply] [Original]

What are key texts to understanding philosophical skepticism?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 14:35:54 2015 No.6530795 >>6530792 I'm not sure.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 14:43:18 2015 No.6530831 >>6530795 Damn, well thanks for trying.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 17:28:31 2015 No.6531604 Bump. Plz help.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 17:32:53 2015 No.6531634 >>6530792 You don't learn about skepticism by reading a philosophical text. That's the whole point of it. What you're asking would be like reading a book about how to be illiterate.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 17:35:36 2015 No.6531648 >>6531634 Are you saying that Philosophical skepticism is not a school of thought? Or that there are skeptics who write about this topic?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 17:43:58 2015 No.6531682 >>6531648 is skeptic a euphemism for euphoric fedoras?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 17:45:31 2015 No.6531688 >>6531634 You're fucking illiterate. >>6530792 Read Descartes' Meditations. He's the most well known modern philosopher to introduce the paradox of radical scepticism and try to get over it.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 17:52:21 2015 No.6531720 >>6531688 Thank you. I'll read that. I also understand that Hume might be good for after?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 17:56:22 2015 No.6531737 >>6531720 Hume is better and >>6531688 is a retard