Global Skepticism

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This paper explains that the global skeptics argue against the theory that knowledge may be proved through the senses because sensorial perception differs from one individual to another to the extent that there is an element of doubt. The author points out that, looking in parallel at the skeptic and non-skeptic argumentation from a sensorial point of view, the non-skeptic argument is always much weaker because the skeptic can always use doubt and can always bring out the "what if" argument. The paper relates that people who believe in God do so because of their faith and of their belief in religious facts, not because God revealed himself to them or because his existence has been proven by physical variables, but because religious people believe he exists and he directs and determines events in their lives.

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"Quite close to the parallel I have presented previously, we have the criterion of truth. According to this, "any criterion used to judge the truth of a claim can be challenged because a further criterion is needed by which to judge the present criterion, and so on ad infinitum". This argument is based again on the doubt principle, but has also close ties with the religious argument brought about by St. Thomas Aquinas for the existence of God, known as the First Cause."

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