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    Reid's direct theory of perception delivers knowledge of the external world.

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    • 1.The Way of Ideas' representational theory leads to skepticism about the external world.
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    • 2.Reid's direct theory of perception avoids the pitfalls of the representational theory.
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    • 3.Avoiding those pitfalls allows the theory to ground knowledge of the external world rather than collapsing into skepticism.
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    • 1.Reid's appeal to common sense as epistemic bedrock merely relocates the justificatory problem rather than solving it.
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    • 2.Principles accepted as self-evident to 'all mankind' can be culturally variable, undermining their status as universal epistemic foundations.
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    • 3.A theory grounding knowledge in unargued intuitions cannot answer the skeptic without begging the question against them.
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    • 1.Direct realism entails that perception gives us unmediated access to objects, but perceptual illusions and hallucinations demonstrate that experience can systematically misrepresent the world.
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    • 2.If the same perceptual mechanism produces both veridical and illusory experiences indistinguishably, Reid's direct theory cannot internally differentiate knowledge from error.
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    • 3.A theory that cannot discriminate knowledge from mere true belief without external supplementation fails to deliver knowledge in the philosophically robust sense.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    Ultimately, we think that such arguments lead to their conclusions because we accept certain logical principles—such as the law of non-contradiction, or modus ponens—which appear to us to be self-evident. But to say that such principles are self-evident is just to say that we cannot help but accept them. It is not to offer any non-circular justification of those principles. But the irresistibility of a belief is a very good indicator, Reid thinks, that we hold that belief merely because of the w
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