Knowledge, Certainty, and Factivity: A Possible Rapprochement

Logos and Episteme 11 (2):237-243 (2020)
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Abstract

In recent discussions in this journal, Moti Mizrahi defends the claim that knowledge equals epistemic certainty. Howard Sankey finds Mizrahi’s argument to be problematic, since, as he reads it, this would entail that justification must guarantee truth. In this article, I suggest that an account of the normativity of justification is able to bridge the gap between Mizrahi’s proposal and Sankey’s objections.

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Jeffrey Hoops
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Justification logic.Sergei Artemov - forthcoming - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Factivity or Grounds? Comment on Mizrahi.Howard Sankey - 2019 - Logos and Episteme 10 (3):333-4.

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