Knowledge-first believing the unknowable

Synthese 198 (4):3855-3871 (2021)
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I develop a challenge for a widely suggested knowledge-first account of belief that turns, primarily, on unknowable propositions. I consider and reject several responses to my challenge and sketch a new knowledge-first account of belief that avoids it.

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10.1007/s11229-019-02314-6

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What it takes to believe.Daniel Rothschild - 2020 - Philosophical Studies 177 (5):1345-1362.
Ways to Knowledge-First Believe.Simon Wimmer - 2023 - Erkenntnis 88 (3):1189-1205.

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