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(2013) Synthese 190 (14).

Concessive knowledge-attributions

fallibilism and gradualism

Stephen Hetherington

pp. 2835-2851

Any knowledge-fallibilist needs to solve the conceptual problem posed by concessive knowledge-attributions (such as ‘I know that p, but possibly not-p’). These seem to challenge the coherence of knowledge-fallibilism. This paper defuses that challenge via a gradualist refinement of what Fantl and McGrath (2009) call weak epistemic fallibilism.

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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-012-0088-9

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Hetherington, S. (2013). Concessive knowledge-attributions: fallibilism and gradualism. Synthese 190 (14), pp. 2835-2851.