Some Evidence is False

Australasian Journal of Philosophy 91 (1):165 - 172 (2013)
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According to some philosophers who accept a propositional conception of evidence, someone's evidence includes a proposition only if it is true. I argue against this thesis by appealing to the possibility of knowledge from falsehood

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10.1080/00048402.2011.637937

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