The Tesseract, the Cube and Truthless Knowledge

Philosophia 48 (4):1569-1573 (2020)
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Abstract

Virtually all epistemologists agree that truth is a necessary condition for knowledge. Assuming that our three-dimensional world is nested within a higher-dimensional space, I use multidimensional geometry to present a type of case which undermines this fundamental principle of epistemology. I further argue that we would be unlikely to revise our epistemic practices in light of new discoveries even if our world turned out to be substantially different and many of our beliefs turned out to be false.

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Belief, Truth and Knowledge.D. M. Armstrong - 1973 - London,: Cambridge University Press.

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