With such skepticism, how are you even able to write anything, or understand the replies? Or do anything at all?
Because I act as if I’m not skeptical. (Of course, I can’t actually know that the last sentence as true, or this statement, or this, and so on).
Thats one of the standard responses to scepticism:
Tu quoque, or performative contradiction.
I wasn’t intending the question rhetorically. If G0W51 is so concerned with universal scepticism, how does he manage to act as if he wasn’t, which he observes he does?
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With such skepticism, how are you even able to write anything, or understand the replies? Or do anything at all?
Because I act as if I’m not skeptical. (Of course, I can’t actually know that the last sentence as true, or this statement, or this, and so on).
Thats one of the standard responses to scepticism:
Tu quoque, or performative contradiction.
I wasn’t intending the question rhetorically. If G0W51 is so concerned with universal scepticism, how does he manage to act as if he wasn’t, which he observes he does?