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I never thought Gettier had something important to say about JTB, but it took a while to figure out exactly how the problem manifested itself.

The Ten Coins case is thin, and that is part of the point. Gettier creates a situation where the justification is basically a detachable bit of formal...

Conversion is real, and it’s actually a good test of what I believe Wittgenstein means by hinges. Some hinges that stand fast for us are local and rev...

Objective justification is necessary for knowledge, but it’s not a guarantee, because truth is the success condition. For example, I say in the paper ...

I don’t want “judgment” to disappear, and I’m not trying to replace it with grammar. I’m trying to locate its role in the process. On my view, judgmen...

I take traditional JTB to be doing something more modest than guaranteeing knowledge in any infallible sense. I treat it as a grammar for when a claim...

So in my framework, I talk about four senses of certainty, and these help explain the two different uses of "I know." First, there's epistemic certain...

Instead of framing hinges as a metaphysical claim about reality, let’s consider how they function structurally. Just as Gödel’s incompleteness theorem...

I don’t think we need to drop the contrast the term is trying to gesture at. The point isn’t “justification shows us the Real,” it’s that justificatio...

First, on the plagiarism case. I don’t think it’s right to say, “it’s still justified, just not by them.” If the justification depends on borrowed wor...

Continuing with the final post of the paper. Post #15 10. Conclusion The classical model of knowledge as justified true belief remains a sound startin...

Continuing with paper... Post #14 9. Objections and Stress Tests Before closing, it is worth testing the framework against a few cases that are often ...

Continuing with paper... Post #13 8. Broader Consequences for Epistemic Life Today The refinement offered by JTB+U is not meant to remain at the level...

Even if you were omniscient someone would disagree. It means nothing, don't you think?

I feel like I keep repeating myself. When I say, “the conditions that make doubt intelligible,” I mean the basic setup that makes checking and being c...

If someone hears grammar as some self-contained explanation, they might ask: why does grammar have that authority? Your answer is, it doesn’t float fr...

Continuing with paper... Post #12 7. JTB+U and Artificial Intelligence: Why AI Does Not “Know” The present interest in artificial intelligence has bro...

Continuing with paper... Post #11 6.4 The Guardrails as Clarifications of Justification Taken together, these guardrails clarify the shape of justific...

Formal logic is one practice among others, and a lot of what governs our epistemic life is the internal logic of practices, what counts as an apology,...

I agree with your “some are and some aren’t.” The stopping point isn’t always as clearly delineated as a finish line. Take “there is an external world...

A lot of recent hinge work has been shifting away from hinges as a magic bullet against skepticism (I don't claim it as a magic bullet, but I do think...

I’m not addressing knowledge as a skill here, knowing how to build a cabinet, assemble a gun, play a tune, etc. That’s important, but it’s a different...

Continuing with paper... Post #10 6.3 Defeater Screening The third guardrail concerns challenge. Justification is not only a matter of placing a belie...

I think that’s the right pressure point, and I don’t want to dodge it with Wittgenstein slogans. When I say by which we take ourselves to be in contac...

My own view is different, but I think that's Wittgenstein's take as I interpret it.

I agree with most of that. Wittgenstein does think his approach bears on the foundations of mathematics: of course, the temptation is to imagine that ...

Okay, I guess I do have something more to say. I can see why @"Banno" would connect it to PI 201, at least as an analogy. PI 201 is about the gap betw...

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I don't have much more to say on the subject. Thanks.

First, on “stand fast.” I do think this has ontological bite. Hinges aren’t merely linguistic habits or conversational conveniences. They are bedrock ...

I think you’re right about how quickly the language of infinity goes into time and process. But “process” can be doing two things, viz., it reports ou...

Continuing with paper... Post #9 6.2 Practice Safety The second guardrail concerns stability. In ordinary life we distinguish between a belief that is...

Because next can mean two different things. 1) Next in the definition (logical next). In mathematics, next often just means “the item with the next la...

Continuing with paper... Post #8 6. Guardrails and the Discipline of Justification The five routes describe the ordinary ways in which justification p...

In math, process doesn’t have to mean a thing happening in time. It may just mean a rule, a precise recipe that tells you how to get the next step, or...

As for why a “God-hinge” is harder to establish than “there is a world”: my answer is that the world-hinge is not something we arrive at by argument (...

There's some repetition in the paper I can cut out. Also, I think I need to clarify a couple of ideas.

Continuing with paper... Post #7 5. The Five Routes of Justification in Practice Justification in our epistemic life does not take a single form. It m...

Ya, I agree it’s hard to rest content with “the process can continue without end,” i.e. we feel a real pull in two directions. On the one hand, once t...

Even in set talk, nothing magical follows: we can define endlessly many infinite sets (like the rationals between a and b), but that’s just a feature ...

Continuing with paper... Post #6 4. Hinges and Limits: A Structural Parallel with Gödel Our justificatory practices do not begin from nowhere. They mo...

That’s a fair challenge, and I’ll concede the affinity while rejecting the conclusion. If “post-Sellarsian” just means locating normativity in assessa...

Coninuing with paper... Post #5 3. The JTB+U Refinement Truth remains the condition that marks the success of a belief within a practice. To say that ...

That’s a fair attempt to place the paper, but I'll make my goal simpler. Mostly what I’m doing is starting with the classical JTB framework and then m...

That’s an interesting question (I've thought about this because there are increasingly more people who want to treat "God exists" as a hinge), and I t...

My argument speaks to a particular conservative branch of Christianity. There are obviously other arguments against Christianity, I don't deny that.

When people say, “there are infinitely many fractions between 1 and 2,” they mean you can always find another fraction in between, no matter how close...

Post 7: Correction Pressure Even when testimony is sincere, it’s strongest when it’s exposed to conditions that can correct it: hostile questioning, i...

Coninuing with paper... Post #4 2. Bedrock Certainties and the Grammar of Doubt Our practices of justification presuppose a background that is not its...

Coninuing with paper... Post #3 1. The Classical Model and Its Enduring Appeal The classical model of knowledge as justified true belief has served as...