THE SWAMPING OBJECTION, THE CONDITIONAL-PROBABILITY SOLUTION AND THE GENERALITY PROBLEM
Abstract
The swamping objection is one of the serious objections raised against reliabilism in recent years. This objection asserts that reliabilism cannot explain why knowledge is epistemically better than true belief given veritism — the view that truth is the sole fundamental epistemic value. Goldman and Olsson try to overcome this objection with their “conditional-probability” solution. Knowledge, according to Goldman and Olsson, is reliably produced true belief and the superior value of knowledge stems from the fact that this composite state increases the probability of future true beliefs of similar kind. The aim of this paper is to show that this reply is based on the “type-token” distinction and thereby faces the so-called “generality problem”. Therefore, for this reply to be successful, this difficulty needs to be resolved.
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Yayımlanma Tarihi
16 Mayıs 2020
Gönderilme Tarihi
12 Kasım 2019
Kabul Tarihi
29 Nisan 2020
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Yıl 1970 Sayı: 29