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    Supports→Transcendental arguments that show what we must believe have anti-skeptical value even without proving truth

    These beliefs are invulnerable in the sense that we cannot find them to be false in ourselves or others

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    A third type of modest approach is offered by Stroud himself, where he claims that even a transcendental argument which shows what we must believe can have anti-skeptical value, in showing that these beliefs are indispensable and invulnerable, in the sense that we not only cannot abandon them, but also we cannot find them to be false in ourselves or others, because to so find them would be to give up believing anything at all. However, Stroud allows that this sort of status for the belief in que

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