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- Encyclopedia of Philosophy: SCEPTICISM
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Cavell, Stanley
that agreement is ineliminable. Since, however, our capacity to use words presupposes some such agreement, its sceptical refusal must result in emptiness - in the sceptics' saying something other than they take themselves to mean, or in saying nothing whatever. Accordingly, scepticism must be combatted not by claiming that the repudiation of criteria is impossible or irrational, but by demonstrating its true cost. That cost turns out to be high. In so far as criteria distinguish phenomena fro...