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Course: Wireless Philosophy > Unit 2
Lesson 7: MetaphilosophyMetaphilosophy: Contrastivism #4 (Skepticism)
In this Wireless Philosophy video, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke University) introduces a new approach to the problem of skepticism: contrastivism. At odds with traditional philosophical approaches to knowledge, contrastive knowledge holds that knowledge statements are true only relative to a set of relevant alternatives. Knowledge, on this view, is a three-place relation, as opposed to a two-place relation, as it is traditionally understood. This view of knowledge resolves the problem of skepticism.
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- Am I being skeptical by asking if "give peace a chance" ends on the tonic?(3 votes)
- Seems like it does, but perhaps in a key that is specific to the professor.(2 votes)
- I have to be in the matrix... this can't be real life!(1 vote)