Lewis Flashcards

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How does Lewis feel about the choice between fallibilism and skepticism?

A

If he had to choose, he’d rather be a fallibilist, but he’d prefer to find some way of being a non-skeptical infallibilist.

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How does Lewis want to handle the Gettier problem?

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He argues that Gettier’s cases involve a problematic possibility resembling the actual situation, a possibility that we can’t properly ignore.

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Which of the following is closest to Lewis’s analysis of knowledge?

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You know a proposition P if P holds in every possibility left uneliminated by your evidence.

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