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Chapter 12. The Lottery and Preface
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
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I. The Basic Idea
- Chapter 1. An Observation 3
- Chapter 2. Post-Gettier Accounts of Knowledge 6
- Chapter 3. Knowledge Stories 9
- Chapter 4. Intuitions about Knowledge 12
- Chapter 5. Important Truths 19
- Chapter 6. Maximally Accurate and Comprehensive Beliefs 32
- Chapter 7. The Beetle in the Box 41
- Chapter 8. Knowledge Blocks 46
- Chapter 9. The Theory of Knowledge and Theory of Justified Belief 51
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II. Puzzles and Questions
- Chapter 10. The Value of True Belief 59
- Chapter 11. The Value of Knowledge 65
- Chapter 12. The Lottery and Preface 70
- Chapter 13. Reverse Lottery Stories 73
- Chapter 14. Lucky Knowledge 78
- Chapter 15. Closure and Skepticism 81
- Chapter 16. Disjunctions 86
- Chapter 17. Fixedness and Knowledge 88
- Chapter 18. Instability and Knowledge 91
- Chapter 19. Misleading Defeaters 95
- Chapter 20. Believing That I Don’t Know 99
- Chapter 21. Introspective Knowledge 102
- Chapter 22. Perceptual Knowledge 106
- Chapter 23. A Priori Knowledge 110
- Chapter 24. Collective Knowledge 113
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III. The Structure of Epistemology
- Chapter 25. A Look Back 121
- Chapter 26. Epistemology within a General Theory of Rationality 124
- Chapter 27. The Core Concepts of Epistemology 134
- Notes 137
- Index 149
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
-
I. The Basic Idea
- Chapter 1. An Observation 3
- Chapter 2. Post-Gettier Accounts of Knowledge 6
- Chapter 3. Knowledge Stories 9
- Chapter 4. Intuitions about Knowledge 12
- Chapter 5. Important Truths 19
- Chapter 6. Maximally Accurate and Comprehensive Beliefs 32
- Chapter 7. The Beetle in the Box 41
- Chapter 8. Knowledge Blocks 46
- Chapter 9. The Theory of Knowledge and Theory of Justified Belief 51
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II. Puzzles and Questions
- Chapter 10. The Value of True Belief 59
- Chapter 11. The Value of Knowledge 65
- Chapter 12. The Lottery and Preface 70
- Chapter 13. Reverse Lottery Stories 73
- Chapter 14. Lucky Knowledge 78
- Chapter 15. Closure and Skepticism 81
- Chapter 16. Disjunctions 86
- Chapter 17. Fixedness and Knowledge 88
- Chapter 18. Instability and Knowledge 91
- Chapter 19. Misleading Defeaters 95
- Chapter 20. Believing That I Don’t Know 99
- Chapter 21. Introspective Knowledge 102
- Chapter 22. Perceptual Knowledge 106
- Chapter 23. A Priori Knowledge 110
- Chapter 24. Collective Knowledge 113
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III. The Structure of Epistemology
- Chapter 25. A Look Back 121
- Chapter 26. Epistemology within a General Theory of Rationality 124
- Chapter 27. The Core Concepts of Epistemology 134
- Notes 137
- Index 149