Evil Genius Argument Analysis

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First let us define and understand what the viewpoints of global sceptics are. A global skeptic always puts forward an argument- how can we not say that whatever knowledge or beliefs we have about external world or broadly speaking anything are not just mere illusions and can be falsified? The two most famous global skeptics discussed here are René Descartes and Hilary Putnam. Both of them gave different experiments to validate their global skeptic arguments. René Descartes gave the “Evil Genius Argument” and Hilary Putnam gave “The Brain in a Vat” argument. René Descartes gave an argument that centers on the possibility of an evil genius who systematically deceives us. He questions whether this whole world is just a dream sequence and not

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