Question 5 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension 2021 Medium MCQ +3.00 marks · -1.00 negative

It has been said that knowledge, or the problem of knowledge, is the scandal of philosophy. The scandal is philosophy's apparent inability to show how, when and why we can be sure that we know something or, indeed, that we know anything. Philosopher Michael Williams writes: 'Is…

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The author of the passage is most likely to support which one of the following statements?

A. The actions taken on the basis of presumed knowledge are rational and justifiable if we are confident that that knowledge is widely held. B. For the sceptic, if we think of reality as independent of our perceptions, ideas or descriptions, we should aim to know that reality independently too. C. The scandal of philosophy is that we might not know anything at all about reality if we think of reality as independent of our perceptions, ideas or descriptions. D. The confidence with which we maintain something to be true is usually independent of the source of the alleged truth.

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