Knowing failably and Moorean assertions |
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Authors: | Stephen Hetherington |
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Affiliation: | University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
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Abstract: | Knowledge-fallibilism is a species of a genus that I call knowledge-failabilism. Each is a theory of knowledge's nature. One apparent challenge to knowledge-failabilism's truth is the prima facie absurdity of Moorean assertions like ‘It's raining but I do not believe that it is.’ Does each such assertion convey an implicit and unfortunate contrast, even a contradiction? I argue that this Untenable Contrast analysis fails: no such contrast is present within the speaker's perspective at the pertinent time. |
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Keywords: | Moorean assertions failable knowledge fallible knowledge epistemic levels |
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