Journal article

Fallibilism And Concessive Knowledge Attributions

Year:

2005

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Analysis

Authors:

Knowledge
Possibility
Fallible knowledge
Contradictory Error

If you claim that S knows that P, and yet you grant that S cannot eliminate a certain possibility in which not-P, it certainly seems as if you have granted that S does not after all know that P. To speak of fallible knowledge, of knowledge despite uneliminated possibility of error, just sounds contradictory.