| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Human fallibility and fallibilism about knowledge -- The evidential commitments of infallibism -- Infallibism and evidential support -- The knowledge view of justification and excuse -- Closure and defeat -- Undermining defeat -- Knowledge, chance, and practical reasoning -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
Fallibilists claim that one can know a proposition on the basis of evidence that supports it even if the evidence doesn't guarantee its truth. Jessica Brown offers a compelling defence of this view against infallibilists, who claim that it is contradictory to claim to know and yet to admit the possibility of error |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Knowledge, Theory of.
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Skepticism -- Philosophy
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epistemology.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Knowledge, Theory of
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192521910 |
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0192521918 |
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9780191840364 |
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019184036X |
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