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Healthy Scepticism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

James Franklin
James Franklin
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University of New South Wales
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Like Platonism in the philosophy of mathematics, or Communism in California, scepticism about the external world is a doctrine that maintains its health not by being held by many, but by being attacked often. Though there were actual sceptics in ancient times, in various degrees, the history of scepticism in medieval and modern times has been entirely a history of arguments, not of schools.

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Philosophy , Volume 66 , Issue 257 , July 1991 , pp. 305 - 324
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1991

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