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    Challenges→Plutarch's defense of suspension of judgment does not amount to a dismissal of the senses

    If suspension of judgment is total, as epoché requires, then distinguishing 'informative' from 'uninformative' sensory states presupposes the very discriminative capacity being suspended.

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    Presupposes(as describing what Plantinga's argument takes for granted)
    Assumes something to be true without proving it—like how an argument might presuppose that logic works, without first arguing that logic is valid.
    discriminative capacity(as used in epistemology)
    Your ability to notice differences between things—like telling apart a bright light from a dim one, or meaningful information from noise.
    epoché(Husserlian phenomenology)
    A methodological procedure in Husserl's phenomenology that allows reflection on a priori eidetic structures of consciousness.
    sensory states(as used in epistemology)
    The experiences your senses give you—what you see, hear, feel, taste, or smell at any given moment.
    suspension of judgment

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