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Externalism and Armchair Knowledge

Martin Davies

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Abstract Martin Davies explores a solution to a reductio ad absurdum argument template, one instance of which has the conclusion that we can know the proposition ‘someone has interacted with water’ a priori. Davies argues that there are limitations on the transmission of warrant across a priori entailments, limitations that instances of such an argument template necessarily flout.

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Abstract Martin Davies explores a solution to a reductio ad absurdum argument template, one instance of which has the conclusion that we can know the proposition ‘someone has interacted with water’ a priori. Davies argues that there are limitations on the transmission of warrant across a priori entailments, limitations that instances of such an argument template necessarily flout.

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Abstract Martin Davies explores a solution to a reductio ad absurdum argument template, one instance of which has the conclusion that we can know the proposition ‘someone has interacted with water’ a priori. Davies argues that there are limitations on the transmission of warrant across a priori entailments, limitations that instances of such an argument template necessarily flout.

Key concepts: Reductio ad absurdum, Externalism, Argument (complex analysis), Proposition, A priori and a posteriori, Warrant, Epistemology, Philosophy

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