Is Every Truth Knowable? Reply to Williamson
Author: Tennant N.
Source: Ratio, Volume 14, Number 3, September 2001 , pp. 263-280(18)
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Abstract:
This paper addresses an objection raised by Timothy Williamson to the restriction strategy that I proposed, in The Taming of The True, in order to deal with the Fitch paradox. Williamson provides a new version of a Fitch-style argument that purports to show that even the restricted principle of knowability suffers the same fate as the unrestricted one. I show here that the new argument is fallacious. The source of the fallacy is a misunderstanding of the condition used in stating the restricted knowability principle. I also rebut Williamson?s criticism of my argument for the claim that any proposition of the form it is known that
is decidable if
is decidable
Language: English
Document Type: Research article
Affiliations: 1: Department of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA; tennant.9@osu.edu
Publication date: 2001-09-01
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