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Evidentialism and its Discontents$
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Trent Dougherty

Print publication date: 2011

Print ISBN-13: 9780199563500

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2012

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199563500.001.0001

Improbable Knowing

Chapter:
(p. 147 ) 9 Improbable Knowing
Source:
Evidentialism and its Discontents
Author(s):

Timothy Williamson

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199563500.003.0010

Timothy Williamson describes an example which he takes to establish the possibility of knowledge in the presence of the extreme improbability to one that one knows. Prima facie, it seems such an example doesn't sit well with evidentialism, for then one's (total) evidence could support knowledge level justification for p, yet at the same time support the same level of justification for the proposition that you don't know.

Keywords:   knowledge, probability, evidence

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