In my last post I worked out some details of a possible counterexample to the paradox of knowability. The thrust of the problem is stated by Jonathan Kvanvig on Certain Doubts:
The idea is that some truths might be knowable only to incompetent deducers, and knowledge that a given claim is an unknown truth might be just such a knowable claim–only the logically challenged could have such knowledge.
Knowability Redux
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Anarchism is to Political Philosophy as Skepticism is to Epistemology
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In Nicole Hassoun's NDPR review of Roderick T. Long and Tibor R. Machan (eds.), Anarchism/Minarchism: Is a Government Part of a Free Country?, Ashgate, 2008, we read:
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Can an intuition that p be evidence that p?
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Debasing the coinage of rational inquiry: a case study
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Leave it to the linguists to destroy press coverage of bad neuroscience. Wait. Shouldn't that be our job?
A little more than a week ago, our mass media warned us about a serious peril. "Scientists warn of Twitter dangers", said CNN on 4/14/2009:
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