There is no non-circular way to argue for the reliability of one's perceptual faculties because acquiring knowledge about their reliability requires relying on memory and past perceptual success, which presupposes the reliability of those faculties.

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  Epistemology (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2019 Edition)

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• Epistemology (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2019 Edition) plato.stanford.edu Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy via serper

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• memory concept