Philosophy of Skepticism
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1PHILOSOPHYIntroductionThe Skepticism problem takes the shape of an argumentative series for which the conclusions arenot well known to us. In the given hypothesis, we have imagined a disembodied brain which is sited in a vat of nutrients which is helping to keep it alive and function like a normal human brain to have illusions of everything being normal. But everything which that brain is experiencing is a result of impulses generated electronically that are travelling towards nerve endings from the computer.Proposition: ‘There’s a tree in front of me’,We will present the organization of the argument in the following way:P1: I do not know that I am not a brain in a Vat P2: If I do not know that I am not a Brain in a VAT, then I don’t know that ‘There’s a tree infront of me’,Therefore, C: I don’t know that ‘There’s a tree in front of me’.P: “There is a tree in front of me”Now let us say that a person has a tree in front of his house, which we have never seen, but thathe has told us about. If we talk about the tree in front of his house the meaning and context of ourwords does not come from the tree but from his description of the tree. It is even possible thatthere is no tree at all in front of his house because the meaning was derived from the descriptionwe had heard and not the tree itself in actuality. The reference of our words was not related to theactual tree but the “tree” that was created by his description (Goldberg, S. C. 2016).If P then Q- If there is a tree in front of my house then I am not a brain in a VATIn order to conclude that we are not intellects in a vat, then what we mean by ‘we are brains in avat’ is that we are brains in a vat in the image or somewhat alike to that image”. But if we are
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