Powerful ideas in everyday life

instructions:

To answer these topics completely, it takes a minimum of 2 pages – 8-10 paragraphs. Use the topic questions and the scoring rubric to see if your draft responds fully to all parts of the question. A complete, thoughtful answer is more important than word count.

Topic :

Describe the theory of knowledge called skepticism. Consider the skeptic’s charge that we can  never be confident about the reliability of our normal sources of knowledge (perceptions, memory, introspection, and reasoning.) Describe why and how, for each of the 4 sources mentioned, the source is unreliable. Use examples to show your understanding.

If a source of knowledge is unreliable, it means these sources can trick us into believing falsehoods. Does it follow from the fact that we are sometimes mistaken when we rely on these sources that we are  always mistaken? In other words, once we admit is possible that we are mistaken, does that mean that we need to admit that we might  never be correct? How would you respond to the skeptic?