Australasian Journal of Philosophy 90 (4):723-741 (2012)
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Questions about the transparency of evidence are central to debates between factive and non-factive versions of mentalism about evidence. If all evidence is transparent, then factive mentalism is false, since no factive mental states are transparent. However, Timothy Williamson has argued that transparency is a myth and that no conditions are transparent except trivial ones. This paper responds by drawing a distinction between doxastic and epistemic notions of transparency. Williamson's argument may show that no conditions are doxastically transparent, but it fails to show that no conditions are epistemically transparent. Moreover, this reinstates the argument from the transparency of evidence against factive mentalism.
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Keywords | luminosity transparency mentalism knowledge justification evidence speckled hen safety basing |
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DOI | 10.1080/00048402.2011.627925 |
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