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Even if we don't have any knowledge in this life, we have and tend to rely on relevant true beliefs and that's sufficient for inquiry.
Gail Fine
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Gail Fine
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: March 14
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So long as knowledge goes beyond mere true belief, foreknowledge is implausible, since having and relying on relevant true beliefs is sufficient for inquiry. A stepping-stone version of prior true belief seems reasonable, though perhaps we should accept only an even weaker view: a stepping-stone version of roughly-accurate beliefs.
Gail Fine
If historians of philosophy are to be divided into those who focus on discontinuities and those who focus on continuities, I belong in the latter camp.
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