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knowledge from falsehood: a standalone construct

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Epistemology

cases in which a person seems to gain knowledge by inference from a false premise, challenging the view that inferential knowledge needs known premises.

In epistemology, knowledge from falsehood refers to cases in which a person seems to gain knowledge by inference from a false premise, challenging the view that inferential knowledge needs known premises. This meaning comes from Warfield (2005) in Philosophical Perspectives.[1]

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References

Warfield, T. A. (2005). Knowledge from Falsehood. Philosophical Perspectives, 19(1), 405-416. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1520-8583.2005.00067.x

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