The belief in the real-world. What you perceive right now is real Arguments Moore Real World Evalutatability Anti-External World Skeptic Response with Abduction Anti-Skeptic Argument P1: Perceptual experiences seem to present us with an external world P2: Best explanation for P1 is that there really is an external world P3: If hypothesis A provides a better explanation of evidence than hypothesis B, we ought to favour bypothesis A -- MP (P2, P3) -- C : Therefore, we ought to favour hypothesis that there is an external world