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Mad, bad and dangerous to know
Analysis 72 (2):314-316 (2012)
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Tracking accounts of knowledge formulated in terms of counterfactuals suffer from well known problems. Examples are provided, and it is shown that moving to a dispositional tracking theory of knowledge avoids three of these problemsAuthor Profiles
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