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2 Post author: G0W51 31 January 2015 02:00AM

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 01 February 2015 09:55:17AM 3 points [-]

With such skepticism, how are you even able to write anything, or understand the replies? Or do anything at all?

Comment author: G0W51 01 February 2015 05:48:27PM 0 points [-]

Because I act as if I'm not skeptical. (Of course, I can't actually know that the last sentence as true, or this statement, or this, and so on).

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 01 February 2015 03:44:31PM *  -1 points [-]

Thats one of the standard responses to scepticism:

Tu quoque, or performative contradiction.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 01 February 2015 07:44:43PM 2 points [-]

I wasn't intending the question rhetorically. If G0W51 is so concerned with universal scepticism, how does he manage to act as if he wasn't, which he observes he does?

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