Wai Lok CHEUNG ABSTRACT: Pritchard explains the putative failure of knowledge in the fake barn case using epistemic safety. I bring out the notion of epistemic luck, and interact epistemic competence with it through epistemic situation. I propose that evidence supervenes on epistemic situation, such that, given an epistemic success, the measure of epistemic luck of the corresponding epistemic act …
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EPISTEMIC SAFETY: RISK AND ITS NEGATIVITY IN THE GOOD CASE (pages 139-156)
Wai Lok CHEUNG ABSTRACT: Practical encroachment may be understood with an influx of epistemic possibilities into the epistemic context through raising epistemic standard. The same piece of evidence no longer epistemically justifies the corresponding belief because of the extra alternative possibilities. I differentiate relevance into ethical relevance and epistemic relevance through practical interest, and note that, even though one lost …
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Logos and episteme