Revisiting Amodal Completion and Knowledge

Zhao, Haicheng

doi:10.1007/s11406-019-00150-z

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“…Turning to Chute Case and the newspaper example, since it is assumed that these examples feature knowledge, presumably the 16 I address this particular sense of "Lack-of-Awareness" in note 20. 17 Zhao (2020b), Zhao and Baumann (Forthcoming) argue that an account like SAA also addresses some other objections to safety.…”

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How to Play the Lottery Safely?

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2020

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According to the safety principle, if one knows that p, one's belief that p could not easily have been false. One problem besetting this principle is the lottery problem – that of explaining why one does not seem to know that one will lose the lottery purely based on probabilistic considerations, prior to the announcement of the lottery result. As Greco points out, it is difficult for a safety theorist to solve this problem, without paying a heavy price. In this paper, I first reject three existing safety-based solutions to the lottery problem, due to Pritchard, Sosa, and Broncano-Berrocal. Failure of these accounts reveals that there is something crucial missing in the safety principle. By way of remedying this, I propose to integrate a safety principle with a condition regarding one's own awareness of (nearby) error-possibilities. The resulting account, as I argue, enjoys a number of theoretical advantages, including its capacity to handle the lottery problem.

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“… 17 Zhao (2020 b ), Zhao and Baumann (Forthcoming) argue that an account like SAA also addresses some other objections to safety.…”

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2020

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“…We cannot go through all the available interpretations in the literature (cf. Zhao, 2019). To facilitate our discussions, let us focus on Smith's (2016) influential account, which construes normality in explanatory terms.…”

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“…That said, we believe enough has been said to show that the present way of developing a safety-based account holds some serious promise (cf. Zhao, 2020aZhao, , 2020b In sum, the overall lesson for the safety theorist is that knowledge is not just a matter of a belief obtaining external modal stabilities. Whether the subject herself is aware of such stabilities is also relevant for our epistemic evaluation.…”

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Inductive knowledge and lotteries: Could one explain both ‘safely’?

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2020

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Many find it an attractive idea that if one knows that p, one's belief that p must be safe-that is, the belief could not easily have been false (e.g., Pritchard, 2012;Sosa, 1999;Williamson, 2000). In terms of possible world semantics, a safe belief is true in the actual world, as well as in relevantly close possible worlds. Now, depending on the scope of 'close possible worlds', safety typically comes in the following varieties:

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Safety and Unawareness of Error-Possibility

Zhao

2021

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Revisiting Amodal Completion and Knowledge

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How to Play the Lottery Safely?

How to Play the Lottery Safely?

Inductive knowledge and lotteries: Could one explain both ‘safely’?

Safety and Unawareness of Error-Possibility

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