Journal of Philosophical Research 34:47-49 (2009)
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The safety analysis of knowledge, due to Duncan Pritchard, has it that for all contingent propositions, p, S knows that p iff S believes that p, p is true, and in most nearby worlds in which S forms his belief in the same way as in the actual world, S believes that p only if p is true. Among the other virtues claimed by Pritchard for this view is its supposed ability to solve a version of the lottery puzzle. In this paper, I argue that the safety analysis of knowledge in fact fails to solve the lottery puzzle. I also argue that a revised version of the safety principle recently put forward by Pritchard fares no better.
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| Keywords | Contemporary Philosophy General Interest |
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| ISBN(s) | 1053-8364 |
| DOI | 10.5840/jpr_2009_8 |
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