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Wimmer, Simon (2021) Knowledge-first believing the unknowable. Synthese, 198 (4). pp. 3855-3871. doi:10.1007/s11229-019-02314-6 ISSN 0039-7857.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02314-6
Abstract
I develop a challenge for a widely suggested knowledge-first account of belief that turns, primarily, on unknowable propositions. I consider and reject several responses to my challenge and sketch a new knowledge-first account of belief that avoids it.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BD Speculative Philosophy B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Knowledge, Theory of , Belief and doubt, Philosophy of mind | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Synthese | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Springer | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 0039-7857 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | April 2021 | ||||||||||
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Volume: | 198 | ||||||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 3855-3871 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1007/s11229-019-02314-6 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 August 2022 | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 August 2022 |
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