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S chaffer's Demon
Author(s) -
Ballantyne Nathan,
Evans Ian
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
pacific philosophical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.914
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1468-0114
pISSN - 0279-0750
DOI - 10.1111/papq.12013
Subject(s) - demon , argument (complex analysis) , skepticism , philosophy , sort , epistemology , computer science , biology , biochemistry , information retrieval
J onathan S chaffer (2010) has summoned a new sort of demon – which he calls the debasing demon – that apparently threatens all of our purported knowledge. We show that any debasing skeptical argument must attack the justification condition and can do so only if a plausible thesis about justification is false.
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