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So yeah, something I'm more excited about it is how this view of knowledge relates to debunking

arguments and undermining arguments.

So those are arguments that don't attack the truth of your view directly.

Maybe you hold some political view or a moral view or a religious view.

A rebutting objection or a rebutting defeater tries to convince you that your view is false.

A debunking argument tries to undermine your view, try to show you that the reasons for your view are no good.

So maybe your view is true, maybe it's false.

The fact is you don't have good reasons for it.

That's how debugging arguments work.

So I'll try to explain you why considerations about what debunking arguments are support this view of what knowledge is.

Okay, so here are some things that Aquinas said relating to knowledge and specifically philosophy of perception.

Those are not lasers. That's like light bouncing off the bird into this guy's eyes.

Okay, so here is my understanding of Aquinas' view of what happens in ordinary visual perception.

So I'm barring here from Frederick Coppaston who says that when we view in an ordinary case of perception,

when we're looking at corporeal objects like a bird,

those act upon the organs of sense.

And the sensation is an act of the body and the soul, not just the soul alone.

And he says that the senses are naturally determined to the apprehension of particulars.

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