Plato's Arguments Against Skepticism

What is Possible? What is eternal? What can we know? These are all questions people ask themselves when they are studying skepticism. But a lot of people do not even understand what skepticism means. The definition of skepticism is the epistemological view that knowledge is not possible, that nothing is clear; consistently held skepticism leads to nihilism, the loss of all meaning. With that being said, the argument against skepticism is the strongest because the reasoning behind makes much more sense than the argument for skepticism. The allegory of Plato’s cave has a bigger impact on the issue of skepticism than many people think. In this allegory what happens is there are 3 prisoners who are only able to look at a wall in the cave, on this wall they are able to see shadows of things that pass the opening of the cave behind them. The prisoners then begin to name
The last and best argument I found against skepticism was, “Here (holding up one’s left hand) is one hand, here (holding up one’s right hand) is another. Therefore, there are at least two hands, therefore, there are at least two things to be met with in space” (Moore, 2004, para. 5). This was the tip of the iceberg for me, after I saw this argument It made it clear that the argument against skepticism is stronger than the argument for it. The reason why I believe the argument against is stronger is simply how I understand the different arguments. All of the arguments for skepticism are confusing and sometimes hard to understand, even when I was researching it was difficult to pick a source because how confusing some of the arguments were. Although once you take some time to understand the arguments for skepticism you being to understand the logic behind the arguments and it makes sense yet at the end of the day I will firmly believe that knowledge is