Lewis on fallible knowledge

Australasian Journal of Philosophy 83 (4):573 – 580 (2005)
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Lewis has offered a contextualist epistemology that he claims is non-fallibilist. The present note aims to show that, while there seems to be a simple argument for Lewis's claim, the argument is fallacious, and Lewis's epistemology is fallibilist after all.

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