Has Gemes refuted global scepticism?

摘要

Ken Gemes (2009) presents a purported refutation of global scepticismnwhose lucidity is only exceeded by its brevity. He argues that the ‘widelynaccepted view’ of the matter is wrong in thinking that the sceptical hypothesisn(SH), if true, entails that ‘. . . all our experienced-based beliefs could be false’.nHe attributes this view of the SH to Descartes and provides the followingncounter-example: on the basis of one’s sensory experience one could believenthe claims