Open AccessKnowledge Doesn’t Require Epistemic Certainty
Author(s) -
James Simpson
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
logos and episteme
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.334
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 2069-3052
pISSN - 2069-0533
DOI - 10.5840/logos-episteme201910441
Subject(s) - certainty , argument (complex analysis) , epistemology , philosophy , medicine
In a recent discussion note in this journal, Moti Mizrahi offers us the following argument for the conclusion that knowledge requires epistemic certainty:1) If S knows that p on the grounds that e, then p cannot be false given e.2) If p cannot be false given e, then e makes p epistemically certain.3) Therefore, if S knows that p on the grounds that e, then e makes p epistemically certain.I’ll argue that (2) of Mizrahi’s argument is false, and so, Mizrahi’s argument is unsound.