If the skeptic is dubious about cognitive methods like perception and memory, the skeptic has no reason to trust the methods used to arrive at the modalclaims embodied in transcendental arguments
A reproduction of a past knowing experience, conceived as a surrogate for the original experience whose veracity is dependent on that of the original
perception(Hume's theory of ideas)
Any mental activity that brings something before the mind; the basic unit of mental life in Hume's theory of ideas.
skeptic(The side usually taken by Academics in epistemological debates)
One who challenges the possibility of knowledge
transcendental arguments(Epistemology of self-knowledge)
Arguments that assume the existence of some sort of experience or capacity, then develop insights about the background conditions necessary for that experience or capacity, and finally conclude that those background conditions must in fact be met.
However, even if Stroud’s position is indeed weaker than it may at first appear, this does not mean that transcendental arguments are in the clear when it comes to the world-directed transcendental claims they embody. For, a different worry to the same effect can also be urged against them, which in this case relates to the dialectics of our engagements with skepticism (cf. Stern 2007). The central thought is this: On the one hand, the skeptic is often conceived as grounding her doubts on the fa