Doubting reality

Doubting reality

This essay aims to find what ways there are to doubt reality, what reasons to doubt that the things that lay around us, the empirical objects, actually exist.
Not all our warranted beliefs can be justified by inference from others, there must be some foundation of truth that we are flatly given. Our knowledge of the world generally relies on experience, our sensory perceptions of things that we have seen, heard which are then logged in our memory for future reference. It is with these reports of experience that we create a foundation for knowledge. I am going to present reasons for which we can doubt this foundation for knowledge, why the empirical way of gaining knowledge can often be fallible.
One way that we gain knowledge is to test our beliefs against experience. If you are told that something exists, one tests this belief against what we have experienced previously in order to validate that something is true. A simple example is if you are told th...