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    It is not the case that Skepticism about the external world is self-undermining, because the falsity of skepticism is a necessary condition of the skeptical position's own essential commitments.

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    • Transcendental arguments can show that there is an essential commitment of the skeptical position for which the falsity of that skeptical position is a necessary condition.
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