A Criticism of Charles Peirce's Account

By Daniel Kruidenier

Experience is that familiarity with objects that is held in such esteem. This familiarity is as evident to us as anything can be. There have been skeptical attacks against experience, against familiarity with objects. Whether ancient Pyrrhonists or more modern Humeans skeptics have argued that even though it appears as if there is contact with objects, and that this contact results in familiarity, such is not the case.1 But what Cavell said about Hume's Treatise "...which few seem actually to believe but which many feel compelled to try to outsmart; as if so much argument just oughtn't to stand unanswered..."2 seems true about skepticism in general to me. That we are familiar in lesser or greater degree with objects is almost incontrovertible. The trouble begins when we try and give a theoretical account of the possibility of experience of objects. Skeptical challenges become more compelling when they are addressed to the efforts of those who have sought to provide such a theoretical account

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CB4YZW7B
• ISBN13: 9781835203200
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Mantara
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"