Is Everything Revisable?

Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 4:349-357 (2017)
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Over the decades, the claim that everything is revisable (defended by Quine and others) has played an important role in Epistemology and Philosophy of Science. Some time ago, Katz (1988) argued that this claim is paradoxical. This paper does not discuss this objection but rather argues that the claim of universal revisability allows for two different readings but in each case leads to a contradiction and is false.

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10.3998/ergo.12405314.0004.012

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