Knowledge and Lotteries
Knowledge and Lotteries is organized around an epistemological puzzle: in many cases, we seem consistently inclined to deny that we know a certain class of propositions, while crediting ourselves with knowledge of propositions that imply them. In its starkest form, the puzzle is this: we do not think we know that a given lottery ticket will be a loser, yet we normally count ourselves as knowing all sorts of ordinary things that entail that its holder willnot suddenly acquire a large fortune. After providing a number of specific and general characterizations of the puzzle, Hawthorne carefully examines the competing merits of candidate solution…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-153349-5
- EAN: 9780191533495
- Produktnummer: 13897721
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'090 KB
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