Agrippa’s Trilemma and the Exposed Cogito

Agrippa’s trilemma is usually treated as a threat to justification itself: every belief appears to end in regress, circularity, or arbitrary stopping. This paper argues that the trilemma gains its force by committing a Sorites-style error. It asks for the exact grain at which fallible belief becomes certain knowledge, and when no such grain can be found, treats knowledge as unstable. Against this, Resolution Theory distinguishes truth from human access to truth: truth is binary, while human knowledge of truth is scalar. Knowledge begins from the narrow certainty of the cogito, experience occurring for a subject-position, and widens through exposure-tested tracking. The paper argues that Agrippa’s trilemma does not destroy knowledge, but only an inflated picture of knowledge as absolute possession from outside fallibility, time, and correction. Knowledge does not stand outside exposure. It is reliable world-tracking within it.