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Jennifer Nagel on Intuitions about Knoweldge

Philosophy Bites

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What Is Knowledge?

Some people have advanced theory called contextualism, where the relationship that's picked by the verb to know actually changes in different conversational contexts. And you could say that maybe our perception of this relationship got a bit twisted or a bit skewed when i started mentioning possibilities of error. In that clock case, if i stipulate the clock's not broken, the clock is a ok. But i'm getting you to start thinking about your judgment about the time in a different way. It's possible that our natural mind reading equipment starts mis firing when we mention these possibilities of error,. just the same way that your natural temperature detecting equipment can mis fire if you immerse your hands in boiling in icy

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