A standard form of skeptical scenario, in the tradition of Descartes’ evil demon, raises the prospect that our sensory experiences are deceptive. A less familiar and importantly different kind of skeptical scenario raises the prospect that our beliefs have been debased (Schaffer, 2010). This paper provides a new and improved way of resisting this latter kind of debasing skepticism. Along the way, I explore how the debasing demon scenario connects with some potentially controversial epistemological principles and clear up various neglected or misunderstood points concerning debasing skepticism.

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  “关于被贬低”

在笛卡尔的邪恶恶魔的传统中，一种标准形式的怀疑情景提出了一种可能性，即我们的感官体验具有欺骗性。一种不太熟悉但重要的不同类型的怀疑情景提出了我们的信仰已被贬低的可能性（Schaffer，2010 年）。本文提供了一种新的和改进的方法来抵制后一种贬低的怀疑主义。在此过程中，我探讨了贬低恶魔场景如何与一些可能有争议的认识论原则联系起来，并澄清了有关贬低怀疑论的各种被忽视或误解的要点。