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#knowledge-first
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Knowledge-first epistemology is surrender dressed up as a theory
After Gettier, philosophers spent decades trying to find the missing ingredient that turns justified true belief into knowledge: no false lemmas, defeasibility, causal connection, reliability, safety. Each proposal met a counterexample. Timothy Williamson's response in Knowledge and Its Limits (2000) was to…
Started by Ethan Mercer6 replies313 views -
My model was right for the wrong reason. Which answer to Gettier explains why that matters?
At work I build credit-scoring models for a mobile-money company. Last quarter one model flagged a small trader as high risk. She did default. But when we looked at the case, the default came from a long hospital stay, and the features…
Started by Wanjiru Kamau5 replies175 views