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Are we luminous?

Abstract:

Since its appearance over a decade ago, Timothy Williamson's anti‐luminosity argument has come under sustained attack. Defenders of the luminous overwhelmingly object to the argument's use of a certain margin‐for‐error premise. Williamson himself claims that the premise follows easily from a safety condition on knowledge together with his description of the thought experiment. But luminists argue that this is not so: the margin‐for‐error premise either requires an implausible interpretation o...

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10.1111/phpr.12067

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Philosophy Faculty
Sub department:
Philosophy-NonPostholders
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Author
Publisher:
Wiley Publisher's website
Journal:
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Journal website
Volume:
90
Issue:
2
Pages:
294-319
Publication date:
2013-09-12
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EISSN:
1933-1592
ISSN:
0031-8205
Language:
English
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pubs:429663
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uuid:69e43595-ad16-4b40-b53b-d256e990b817
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pubs:429663
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429663
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2018-10-30

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