The Contingent Unknowability of Facts and its Relation with Informal, Epistemological Contexts
This paper focuses on elements that are involved in a specific type of judgment, namely, those involving facts that, in virtue of contingent reasons, are out of our epistemic reach. Its goal is to propose a philosophical explanation about why we, in informal contexts, take some facts as contingently...
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
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| description | This paper focuses on elements that are involved in a specific type of judgment, namely, those involving facts that, in virtue of contingent reasons, are out of our epistemic reach. Its goal is to propose a philosophical explanation about why we, in informal contexts, take some facts as contingently unknowable. In order to accomplish that goal, we develop a theory that defines contingently unknowable facts in a very specific way. We establish three clauses that are jointly necessary and sufficient — so we argue — for taking an arbitrary fact as contingently unknowable. In a variety of contexts, this strategy has the potential of reducing efforts in an epistemological analysis of this particular type of unknowability. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2e57c868c087405291ff04d803abb1092022-12-21T18:51:57ZengUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology1414-42471808-17112017-11-01211617610.5007/1808-1711.2017v21n1p6127978The Contingent Unknowability of Facts and its Relation with Informal, Epistemological ContextsStanley Kreiter Bezerra Medeiros0IFRN - Instituto Federal do Rio Grande do NorteThis paper focuses on elements that are involved in a specific type of judgment, namely, those involving facts that, in virtue of contingent reasons, are out of our epistemic reach. Its goal is to propose a philosophical explanation about why we, in informal contexts, take some facts as contingently unknowable. In order to accomplish that goal, we develop a theory that defines contingently unknowable facts in a very specific way. We establish three clauses that are jointly necessary and sufficient — so we argue — for taking an arbitrary fact as contingently unknowable. In a variety of contexts, this strategy has the potential of reducing efforts in an epistemological analysis of this particular type of unknowability.https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/47211Necessary unknowabilityContingent unknowabilityEvidenceContingency counterfactuals |
| spellingShingle | Stanley Kreiter Bezerra Medeiros The Contingent Unknowability of Facts and its Relation with Informal, Epistemological Contexts Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology Necessary unknowability Contingent unknowability Evidence Contingency counterfactuals |
| title | The Contingent Unknowability of Facts and its Relation with Informal, Epistemological Contexts |
| title_full | The Contingent Unknowability of Facts and its Relation with Informal, Epistemological Contexts |
| title_fullStr | The Contingent Unknowability of Facts and its Relation with Informal, Epistemological Contexts |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Contingent Unknowability of Facts and its Relation with Informal, Epistemological Contexts |
| title_short | The Contingent Unknowability of Facts and its Relation with Informal, Epistemological Contexts |
| title_sort | contingent unknowability of facts and its relation with informal epistemological contexts |
| topic | Necessary unknowability Contingent unknowability Evidence Contingency counterfactuals |
| url | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/47211 |
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