...This chapter examines Augustine of Hippo's efforts to vindicate the possibility of knowledge as he sought to discredit Academic skepticism. It first considers the debate that took place between the Academics and the Stoics over the possibility of knowledge, with particular emphasis on the Academics...

...This afterword summarizes the main points of Augustine of Hippo's strategy for vindicating the possibility of knowledge against the Academics' denial of that possibility. Augustine puts forward a number of truths in each of the divisions of philosophy—physics, ethics, and dialectic—that he claims...

... knows anything about world around us. Berkeley G Burnyeat M F Descartes R Haldane E S Ross G R T Cleveland senses the ‘deceived by the senses’ ‘representativeness’ dreams sensory experiences dream‐possibility possibility of knowledge Duke of Devonshire Moore G E hallucination Price H H...

... of subjects normality RE rule RN rule hyperintensionality Smithies D epistemic justification metaphysical versus epistemic possibility of knowledge closure principles normic theory of justification normality agglomeration principles Moorean propositions The present account, which construes...

... such first-person truths to constitute a fifth class of truths, whose existence Augustine thinks is a decisive refutation of the Academics' denial of the possibility of knowledge. This chapter begins with an overview of the earliest discussions of first-person truths in Augustine's corpus, including...

...This chapter examines the three things that Augustine of Hippo sets out to do in the monologue of Against the Academics to directly establish the possibility of knowledge. First, Augustine presents three dilemmas concerning Zeno's definition of an apprehensible impression to force...

... of all means of rationally convincing the Skeptic shows only that we should not play this game. It doesn t show anything at all about the possibility of knowledge. If someone asked us to show how it is possible to earn money without either working or investing, we might well be at a loss. Those 14...

... assumes that the possibility of knowledge requires non‐homonymous properties, and that Plato shares the assumption that F‐ness can only be explained if there is some one thing F that is the same in all cases. Fine's conclusion reinforces that of Ch. 10, i.e. that neither...