Abstract
I will explore the paradoxical nature of epistemic access. By critiquing the traditional conception
of mental states that are labelled as ’knowledge’, I demonstrate the susceptibility of these states to
an infinite regress, thus, challenging their existence and validity. I scrutinise the assumption that an
epistemic agent can have complete epistemic access to all facts about a given object while simultaneously
being ignorant of certain truths that impact the very knowledge claims about the object. I further analyse
the implications of this paradox when attempting to fine-grain the parameters of epistemic access, which
happens to reveal the vacuity of such definitions and the inevitability of the regress.