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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Knowledge ascriptions"”.
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Contextual Knowledge Ascriptions and Non-Contextual Knowledge
In this paper I pair a contextualist theory of knowledge ascriptions with a non-contextual definition of knowledge, specifically the principle that knowledge is infallible belief. This combination is unusual because proponents of contextualism, understood as a semantic thesis, either do not engage …
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A defense of the ambiguity theory of 'knows'
… questions regarding the truth conditions of knowledge ascriptions (sentences of the form ‘S knows that P’ where S is a subject and P a proposition) and knowledge denials (sentences of the form ‘S doesn’t know that P’) have been at the fore of a certain sector of analytic epistemology and …
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Practical Epistemology: Essays on What to Think and What to Do
… vexingly difficult to pin down. Legal proof is knowledge on the basis of trace evidence that the defendant is guilty. This epistemic norm generalizes to all of our responses and reactive attitudes — and is a challenge to orthodox knowledge norms. Chapter 2 considers a central issue in the ethics …