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An Essay on Inferential Knowledge

Rodrigo Martins Borges

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English
Pradeep Kandimalla
02 November 2023
Under what conditions do we have inferential knowledge? I propose and defend the

following principle: S knows that p via inference only if S knows all the premises

essentially involved in her inference in support of p - ""KFK"" for short. Even

though KFK is at least tacitly endorsed by many figures in the history of

philosophy, from Aristotle through Descartes, and Kant to Bertrand Russell -and,

more recently, by David Armstrong - KFK has fallen into disfavor among

epistemologists over the past fifty years. In response to Edmund Gettier's legendary

paper, many have proposed views according to which one's reasoning is a

source of knowledge even if one fails to know some or all premises essentially

involved in one's reasoning, while others have given up offering a theory of inferential

knowledge and have focused on reasoning as a source of justified belief

instead. Unfortunately, these accounts that deal with inferential knowledge are

problematic; they cannot, for example, fully explain our common practice of evaluating

negatively inferences with unknown premises.
By:  
Imprint:   Pradeep Kandimalla
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 10mm
Weight:   245g
ISBN:   9798869003157
Pages:   176
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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