Sunday, August 2, 2009

An anti-sceptical argument schema

  1. Concept C is not further analyzable.
  2. If C is an actually-had (by a human being) concept that is not further analyzable, then C is possibly satisfied.
  3. If C is an actually-had concept that is not further analyzable, then, probably, C is actually satisfied.
  4. Someone actually has the concept C.
  5. Therefore, both possibly and probably there is something that has C.
Plausible cases: causation, materiality, possibility, goodness, consciousness, numinousness, etc.

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