Williamson On the Margins of Knowledge: A Criticism

Ciro De Florio, Vincenzo Fano

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Abstract

In this paper, we argue that Williamson’s arguments against luminosity and the KK principle do not work, at least in a scientific context. Both of these arguments are based on the presence of a so-called “buffer zone” between situations in which one is in a position to know p and situations in which one is in a position to know ¬p. In those positions belonging to the buffer zone ¬p holds, but one is not in a position to know ¬p. The presence of this buffer zone triggers two types of sorites arguments. We show that this kind of argument does not hold in a scientific context, where the buffer zone is controlled by a quantitative measurement of the experimental error.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)N/A-N/A
JournalFoundations of Science
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020

Keywords

  • Epistemology

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