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    It is not the case that There is no prospect of our being able to determine the nature of things

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    • 1.The very practice of Pyrrhonist inquiry presupposes reliable cognitive faculties capable of comparing appearances and detecting inconsistency.
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    • 2.If our faculties were wholly unreliable, the Pyrrhonist could not coherently identify the contradictions among appearances that motivate suspension of judgment.
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    • 3.Therefore, Pyrrhonism tacitly concedes a determinate epistemic standard it officially denies, undermining the claim that nature is entirely inaccessible.
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    • 1.Sellars and later Quine demonstrated that successful predictive science constitutes convergent evidence about mind-independent structural features of reality.
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    • 2.The no-miracles argument holds that the predictive success of mature scientific theories is best explained by their approximate truth about the nature of things.
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    • 3.Approximate truth of theoretical claims about unobservable structures counts as a determinate, if fallible, grasp of nature, directly contradicting the Pyrrhonist conclusion.
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    • 1.Our sensations and opinions fail to be consistent deliverers of true reports about the world
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    • 2.Our sensations and opinions fail to be consistent deliverers of false reports about the world
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