Transcendental arguments answer skeptical doubts by claiming that X is a necessary condition for the possibility of Y and deducing X from Y

However, even if Stroud’s position is indeed weaker than it may at first appear, this does not mean that transcendental arguments are in the clear when it comes to the world-directed transcendental claims they embody. For, a different worry to the same effect can also be urged against them, which in this case relates to the dialectics of our engagements with skepticism (cf. Stern 2007). The central thought is this: On the one hand, the skeptic is often conceived as grounding her doubts on the fa