Cleaning up, and Moving Past, Simple Swamping

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Many philosophers believe that true belief is of epistemic value, but knowledge even more value. Some claim this surplus value instrumentally valuable to the belief. I call conjunction these claims instrumentalist's conjunction. The so-called swamping problem meant show inconsistent. Crudely put, if only has belief, and a because known, then cannot be any than Given inconsistency, most philosopher reject instrumental This paper argues Swamping Problem illusory. Once we clean up pay attention distinction between token/type properties, can see perfectly coherent.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Theoria

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['1665-6415']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12357