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The Philosophical Journey, 2/e
William Lawhead, The University of Mississippi

The Search for Knowledge
Skepticism

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1

Strategies used by skeptics to attack knowledge claims by showing that there are possible state of affairs that would prevent us from ever distinguishing true beliefs from fake ones are called in your text .
2

was an ancient skeptic who argued one day for justice and the next day against it.
3

Descartes' skepticism is a procedure aimed at finding absolutely certain beliefs.
4

Hume divides perceptions into and ideas.
5

The principle of is the assumption that the future will be like the past, an assumption that depends on belief in the uniformity of nature.