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God and counterpossibles
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Timothy Williamson’s Knowledge and its Limits is a treasure trove of philosophical riches. By reversing the usual explanatory order and putting “knowledge first” in epistemology (p. v) Williamson reconceives the relationships between knowledge, belief, justification and evidence. While there is much to be said about Williamson’s ambitious project, I will focus on his imaginative account of evid...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Philosophical Logic
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0022-3611,1573-0433
DOI: 10.1007/s10992-017-9446-x