An Argument for the Safety Condition on Knowledge

Logos and Episteme 8 (4):517-520 (2017)
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Abstract

This paper introduces a new argument for the safety condition on knowledge. It is based on the contention that the rejection of safety entails the rejection of the factivity condition on knowledge. But, since we should maintain factivity, we should endorse safery.

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Michael Shaffer
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How to defeat opposition to Moore.Ernest Sosa - 1999 - Philosophical Perspectives 13:137-49.

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