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KEEPING TRACK OF THE GETTIER PROBLEM
Author(s) -
BERNECKER SVEN
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
pacific philosophical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.914
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1468-0114
pISSN - 0279-0750
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0114.2011.01389.x
Subject(s) - proposition , epistemology , track (disk drive) , position (finance) , philosophy , state (computer science) , computer science , economics , algorithm , finance , operating system
This paper argues that for someone to know proposition p inferentially it is not enough that his belief in p and his justification for believing p covary with the truth of p through a sphere of possibilities. A further condition on inferential knowledge is that p 's truth‐maker is identical with, or causally related to, the state of affairs the justification is grounded in. This position is dubbed ‘identificationism.’