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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...

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Main Author: Brown, Jessica (Jessica Anne) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Knowledge, Theory of.
Skepticism > Philosophy.
Théorie de la connaissance.
Scepticisme > Philosophie.
epistemology.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > General.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
Knowledge, Theory of
Electronic books.
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780192521910
0192521918
9780191840364
019184036X