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What is Disjunctivism?

Adrian Haddock tells us about one of the most talked-about new approaches in philosophy today.

I am writing these words in the reading room of the National Library of Scotland. There is a man in front of me chewing the end of his pencil. How I do know this? Why, because I see him in front of me, chewing the end of his pencil.

What is going on here? Well, I think there is a man in front of me chewing the end of his pencil, and my visual experience supplies me with a reason for thinking this – namely, that I see a man in front of me chewing the end of his pencil. This is a truly excellent reason for thinking this.

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