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Questions: Read the posted excerpt from Crumley's An Introduction to Epistemology
1. What is realism? (38)How does this connect to the skeptics challenge to the idea that we can know the external world?
2. How does this excerpt intend to rebut the skeptic?
3. When demanding certainty as a criterion for knowledge, what does the skeptic hope to avoid?
4. Regarding your answer to question 3, why is this a controversial demand by the skeptic?
5. Outside of a philosophy course, how does one usually address the issue of making mistake when it comes to making claims?
6. With the answers to 3-5 in mind and based on the text, has the skeptic given us compelling evidence for why we ought to accept their condition for infallibility as a standard for knowledge?
7. What are the two responses that "the defender of our commonsense view" might give to the skeptic regarding their demand for infallibility?