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Skeptics about other minds claim that
{ 1 } - statements about the thoughts and feelings of others can be translated into statements about their behavior.
{ 2 } - we can know what others think or feel by a special intuition of their inner states.
{ 3 } - facts about behavior can be evidence for beliefs about the thoughts and feelings of others.
{ 4 } - we have no knowledge of the thoughts and feelings of others.
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Skeptics about other minds claim that
{ 1 } - statements about the thoughts and feelings of others can be translated into statements about their behavior.
{ 2 } - we can know what others think or feel by a special intuition of their inner states.
{ 3 } - facts about behavior can be evidence for beliefs about the thoughts and feelings of others.
{ 4 } - we have no knowledge of the thoughts and feelings of others.
This is reductionism, not skepticism.
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Skeptics about other minds claim that
{ 1 } - statements about the thoughts and feelings of others can be translated into statements about their behavior.
{ 2 } - we can know what others think or feel by a special intuition of their inner states.
{ 3 } - facts about behavior can be evidence for beliefs about the thoughts and feelings of others.
{ 4 } - we have no knowledge of the thoughts and feelings of others.
This is intuitionism, not skepticism.
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Skeptics about other minds claim that
{ 1 } - statements about the thoughts and feelings of others can be translated into statements about their behavior.
{ 2 } - we can know what others think or feel by a special intuition of their inner states.
{ 3 } - facts about behavior can be evidence for beliefs about the thoughts and feelings of others.
{ 4 } - we have no knowledge of the thoughts and feelings of others.
This is critical cognitivism, not skepticism.
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Skeptics about other minds claim that
{ 1 } - statements about the thoughts and feelings of others can be translated into statements about their behavior.
{ 2 } - we can know what others think or feel by a special intuition of their inner states.
{ 3 } - facts about behavior can be evidence for beliefs about the thoughts and feelings of others.
{ 4 } - we have no knowledge of the thoughts and feelings of others.
The skeptic could argue this way:
Experience and reason don't yield knowledge of other minds.
There's no source of knowledge besides experience and reason.
So we have no knowledge of other minds.
Chisholm objects that we sometimes DO know what someone else thinks or feels.
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