Journal article
Are we luminous?
- Abstract:
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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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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Wiley Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Journal website
- Volume:
- 90
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 294-319
- Publication date:
- 2013-09-12
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1933-1592
- ISSN:
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0031-8205
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:429663
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- pubs:429663
- Source identifiers:
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429663
- Deposit date:
- 2018-10-30
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- Copyright holder:
- Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, LLC
- Copyright date:
- 2013
- Notes:
- © 2013 Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, LLC. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Wiley at: https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12067
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