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A PROPOSITION IS EPISTEMICALLY POSSIBLE IF AND ONLY IF ITS NEGATION IS NOT OBVIOUS (pages 333-349)

Chris TWEEDT ABSTRACT: According to a prominent account of epistemic possibility endorsed by John Hawthorne and Jason Stanley (“H-S Account”), a proposition q is epistemically possible for a subject just in case what the subject knows doesn’t obviously entail not-q. I argue that H-S Account is false by its own lights by first showing that H-S Account entails a different …

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