Evidence and armchair access
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Evidence and armchair access
In this paper, I shall discuss a problem that arises when you try to combine an attractive account of what constitutes evidence with an independently plausible account of the kind of access we have to our evidence. According to E=K, our evidence consists of what we know. According to the principle of armchair access, we can know from the armchair what our evidence is. Combined, these claims ent...
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عنوان ژورنال: Synthese
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0039-7857,1573-0964
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-009-9703-9