Philosophy

I’ve been trekking through “Philosophy” by Stephen Law- now on page 60 or so. As he himself stated in the preface, many sentences require re-reading, but most things are clear to me. Today I read about scepticism, a view that I was familiar with, but didn’t take very seriously. After Reading Law’s arguments that we might be manipulated by a greater force to see, hear, touch, and feel are sorts of things that are merely simulations, scepticism seems irrefutable. But still, I’m not sure that I agree with the sceptic interpretation of the world and Law makes the point that should one take this view of life, even so, when they step out of their homes, they conform to societal behaviour without questioning everything in view and trying to find a way out of this simulated life.


On the topic of knowledge, which I read about too, I think I agree with Aristotle’s definition of knowledge- belief backed by sufficient evidence. But I wonder how one should decide how much proof is sufficient to turn their belief into knowledge. Now I can’t remember if knowledge must be true. How do we know something is true though? It seems that there is a very solid argument for scepticism as it keeps coming back. But how should one apply scepticism to daily life? I hope to figure that out.