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    Assuming we already have some knowledge begs the question... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Naturalized epistemology begs the question against the global skeptic

    Assuming we already have some knowledge begs the question against the global skeptic, who denies that we have any knowledge

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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
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    A second standard objection to naturalized epistemology is that it gives up the project of answering the global skeptic and as a consequence fails to address, much less resolve, a central issue in epistemology. It must surrender this project because by operating within science it assumes that we already have some knowledge and hence begs the question against the global skeptic. For example, Quine appeals to Darwin to explain why our native inductive tendencies (used say in tracking the location

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