Not knowing you know: a new objection to the defeasibility theory of knowledge

Analysis 75 (2):213-217 (2015)
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Foley and Turri have recently given objections to the defeasibility theory of propositional knowledge. Here, I give an objection of a quite different stripe by looking at what the theory must say about knowing that you know. I end with some remarks on how this objection relates to rival theories and how this might be a worry for some of these

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