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Knowledge-Action Principles and Threshold-Impurism.
- Source :
- Erkenntnis; Aug2024, Vol. 89 Issue 6, p2215-2232, 18p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Impurism says that practical factors encroach on knowledge. An important version of impurism is called 'Threshold-Impurism,' which says that practical factors encroach on the threshold that rational credence must pass in order for one to have knowledge. A prominent kind of argument for Threshold-Impurism is the so-called 'principle-based argument,' which relies on a principle of fallibilism and a knowledge-action principle. This paper offers a new challenge against Threshold-Impurism. I attempt to show that the two principles Threshold-Impurists are committed to—KJ and Fallibilism—are jointly in tension with a widely-held principle of credence that's called 'Truth-Directedness,' in the sense that the former two principles cannot both apply to those who know the third. This tension constitutes a serious challenge to Threshold-Impurists, because it leaves them two options, both of which are undesirable: denying Truth-Directedness, or accepting Truth-Directedness and accepting that whether KJ and Fallibilism apply to a person depends on whether she knows Truth-Directedness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01650106
- Volume :
- 89
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Erkenntnis
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 178230849
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-022-00626-7