Two Routes to (and from) Metaphysical Skepticism

Jessica M. Wilson (University of Toronto at Scarborough, University of Toronto, St. George Campus), Claudio Calosi (Université de Genève)

Abstract:
I consider and offer replies to lines of thought in support of some form of metaphysical skepticism, according to which metaphysical claims -- e.g., the claim that universals serve as the basis for resemblance between objects, or that sets necessarily exist -- are meaningless, false, epistemically inaccessible, or at best pragmatically accepted.

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