Williamson’s Caring Argument Against Analyzing Knowledge

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Williamson thinks that the fact that we have yet to come up with a suitable analysis of knowledge post-Gettier, among other things, should push us to accept that there is no analysis of knowledge.

He thinks that we should treat knowledge as an unanalyzable primitive.

Here’s something I find puzzling, he argues that we should regard knowledge as an unanalyzable primitive even if it turned out that knowledge was co-extensive with some complex analysis. Here’s

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