Many philosophical debates, ideas, and theories are based upon the seemingly common idea of “skepticism”. Skepticism is one of the few philosophical ideas that cannot be defeated or proven inaccurate. ... Since there are skeptics, and skeptical ideas out there, there is also many non-skeptical people and views. Famous Philosophers like Descartes have non-skeptic views, and back them up with a plethora of evidence and theories. I would like to prove Descartes, and the idea of “non-skepticism” irrational and even non-existent.
I really do not understand how there can be anything such as a “non-skeptic”. ... Skepticism is a challenge, and once you accept that challenge, you become a skeptic. ... Like what was said before, skepticism cannot be defeated, therefore the burden of proof is on the non-skeptic. This only brings me to one conclusion, and that is that skepticism is the only answer.
If skepticism cannot be defeated then it seems like the perfect philosophy, it is virtually perfect. The non-skeptic seems to be the naive irrational one to me. Non-skeptics often base their supposed beliefs on very minimal evidence. ... Many people believe that skeptics shouldn’t even be thought about nor worried about, but I believe it is the non-skeptic that is the wrong one here. ... Another piece of evidence towards my idea of the non-existence of non-skepticism, is the fact that Descartes is a supporter of the Mind/Body Problems’ Dualist argument, therefore making him a hypocrite. He is essentially a non-skeptic but, in the theory that he openly believes in and teaches, it says that the “. ... ”, and I do believe a certain word “doubt” not being aloud in the non-skeptics vocabulary. ... So there must be such an idea as a person being a non-skeptic, contrary to everyone being a skeptic, after all it is a “law”.
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