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    Supports→Problematic idealism — the view that the existence of objects outside us in space is doubtful and indemonstrable — is false.

    Therefore, any skeptical doubt about outer objects that presupposes the coherence of inner experience is self-undermining, since inner experience is constitutively dependent on outer experience.

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    Inner experience(as a way of accessing fundamental reality)
    Direct knowledge you have from within yourself—like your own thoughts, feelings, and consciousness—as opposed to learning about something from the outside.
    Outer objects(as used in epistemology)
    Physical things that exist in the world outside your mind, like chairs, trees, or other people.
    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.
    Self-undermining(in logic and argument)
    When an idea or rule contradicts itself or destroys the very thing it's trying to achieve.
    Skeptical doubt

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    Questioning whether you can really know something or whether something is actually true, even things that seem obvious.
    coherence(Applied uniformly by Bosanquet to both religious and non-religious truth claims.)
    The standard by which truth is assessed — a belief or system of beliefs is true insofar as it forms a consistent, internally unified whole.
    constitutively dependent on(explaining what makes artifact categories work)
    Something that is essential to how something else is defined or exists—remove it, and the thing wouldn't be what it is anymore.

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