Knowledge, relevant alternatives and missed clues
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The RAT identifies knowledge with ‘an evidential state in which all relevant alternatives (to what is known) are eliminated’ (Dretske 1981: 367). Developing the RAT involves clarifying how to solve for the variables of relevance and elimination in a given case. Lewis (1996) has developed the most sophisticated version of the RAT to date. According to Lewis, S knows that p iff p is true in every relevant uneliminated possibility. For Lewis, whether or not a possibility is relevant is determined contextually, and he describes seven rules of relevance which clarify how context determines relevance:
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تاریخ انتشار 2001