{"title":"On being in a position to know","authors":"Sven Rosenkranz","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198865636.003.0003","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The notion of being in a position to know contrasts with that of knowledge, and yet, both notions are intimately related. Just as one can only know what is true, one can only be in a position to know what is true. To the extent that knowledge requires safe belief, being in a position to know implies being in a position to safely believe. For any p, if one knows p, one is in a position to know p, whereas the converse does not hold. Doing the best that one is in a position to do to decide a given question may be less than doing everything that one is in a position to do to decide that question, because one cannot do every such thing at once. If one is in a position to know p, one has the opportunity to come to know p upon doing the best that one is in a position to do to decide whether p holds. It is explained what this opportunity involves and what is involved in seizing it.","PeriodicalId":375036,"journal":{"name":"Justification as Ignorance","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Justification as Ignorance","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198865636.003.0003","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The notion of being in a position to know contrasts with that of knowledge, and yet, both notions are intimately related. Just as one can only know what is true, one can only be in a position to know what is true. To the extent that knowledge requires safe belief, being in a position to know implies being in a position to safely believe. For any p, if one knows p, one is in a position to know p, whereas the converse does not hold. Doing the best that one is in a position to do to decide a given question may be less than doing everything that one is in a position to do to decide that question, because one cannot do every such thing at once. If one is in a position to know p, one has the opportunity to come to know p upon doing the best that one is in a position to do to decide whether p holds. It is explained what this opportunity involves and what is involved in seizing it.
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