The Explanationist Argument for the External World evidential
- Our sensory experiences are richly detailed, coherent, and lawfully ordered.
- The real-world hypothesis explains the order and coherence of our experience better than any skeptical rival (dreams, demons, simulations).
- We are justified in believing the hypothesis that best explains our evidence.
- ∴ probably, The external world exists. from 1, 2, 3
Jonathan Vogel, “Cartesian Skepticism and Inference to the Best Explanation”, Journal of Philosophy 87 (11): 658–666, 1990.