Examples Of Humean Skepticism

. Present the problem of perception and defend the best solution to it against serious objections. Consider what you would regard as the second-best solution to the problem, and explain why it is only 2nd best?
The problem of perception is that there are three different claims that try to understand and define perception. That perception of physical objects are real and exist outside of our minds in the physical world. Perception is that we cannot experience anything outside of our minds and that we just experience our own mental states. And lastly, that perception is that we perceive the reality of objects based on our experiences of perceptions. That trying to define if perception of outside objects are real or unreal. That our experience of our minds just creates the idea of an external world or if there even is an external world. These claims create a problem of perception because all of these claims are not compatible with one another.
I believe to be the best solution is Indirect Phenomenalism solution, which in simple terms is that the outside/external world does not exist and that only clusters
of sense-data exist. I choose this solution as the best because it takes into account two very strong ideas, which are that is supports the ideas of distortions of senses and that it is a simple argument compared to others, Sens-Datum theory. Some argument that are against Phenomenalism include the problem of appearance/reality, causal effect, common sense, and permanence of objects. That we observe, but do not link causes of events together, we just observe relational experiences. If there is no external world, there is no such thing as reality and appearance. Our perception from our senses create ideas, bundle of sense-data create the ideas of the external world. That physical objects do not exist that they are only perceived, so we deny the idea of common sense. The second best solution to the problem of perception is the Direct Realism solution. Which is that outside of our minds we directly experience/perceive outside objects. I made this the second best argument because there is a strong objection against the solution because our perception of the real world/physical object can be distorted, due to the idea of illusions, dreams, hallucinations, and etc. I believe that our perception can be easily distorted, which is why I made this the second best argument and not the first. And that to directly perceive physical objects, how could one possible define what direct means. And that the direct experience of physical objects could lead to misleading our perceptions because what if the physical objects are susceptible to changing, where we perceive physical objects the information we receive from our sense is processed so we are not actually directly perceiving that object. I think that Direct Realism has stronger argument that are harder to deny than the Phenomenalism solution.

2. Given what your views on truth and perception, present the strongest case for Skepticism, and reply to it.
I believe to be the strongest argument for Skepticism is Humean Skepticism because it is correlated with what I believe based on my argument for perception.
Hume was a Phenomenalism and his ideas of Skepticism fit in perfectly with his Phenomenalism view. Humean Skepticism is that our perceptions lead us to understand the external world. That our knowledge comes form our ideas. Hume’s ideas on Skepticism about the experiences of an observation come from our perception. Humean Skepticism mentions that imagination is the only way to continue the existence of ideas, because our senses do not continue our ideas/knowledge. Our senses are only available up to a certain point and if we want to further our knowledge, we cannot rely on our senses for those ideas. That Hume mentions that we have no physical evidence of God existing because miracles do not count as
evidence.
My reply to his skeptic views are that I agree with this and believe that a big part of perceptions helps us understand the external world. I do not agree that Hume believes that we cannot demonstrate the external world. I believe we can demonstrate the external world through just putting our hand on a table. I agree with Hume that our perceptions help us form ideas and opinions of the external world. I would have to disagree because miracle are experience that people have actually experienced. The perception helps form ideas but sometimes we must understand that our perceptions could be distorted. The overall argument of Humean Skepticism is kind of confusing to understand, but I find some of his arguments to be very strong towards the case of Skepticism. I believe this to be the strongest argument for Skepticism, but I would have to say I do not agree with all of the claims Hume has made.