Distance from Safety! A Reply to Broncano‐Berrocal's “No Luck in the Distance”

Abstract

In a recent contribution to this journal, Fernando Broncano-Berrocal (2016) defends the safety conception of knowledge against my counterexamples in Freitag 2014 (also this journal) by adding a new clause to the safety condition. In this brief reply, I argue that Broncano-Berrocal's modification cannot be plausibly understood as a natural development of the original safety idea and that, moreover, the resulting account of knowledge can be refuted by a slight alteration of my original examples.