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Thu Sep 1, 2022 234 Moses 4–5:30 PM |
Meaning Sciences Club Simon Goldstein (ACU) KK is wrong because we say so |
The KK principle says that if you know something, then you know that you know it. KK is a controversial principle. It plays important roles in economics, computer science, and in theories of linguistic communication. But many philosophers have rejected it. We give a new argument against KK: we argue that if anyone doubts the principle, then it is false. Then we defend our argument against a battery of responses, which appeal to fragmentation, modes of presentation, and diagonalization. We show that the responses fail, sometimes in surprising ways.