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    Challenges→The skeptical requirement that one rule out all alternatives entails the KK thesis

    If KK is independently falsifiable by cases of borderline knowledge, its alleged entailment by skeptical requirements would make skepticism self-undermining rather than vindicating KK.

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    Borderline knowledge(examples that could disprove KK)
    Situations where it's unclear or debatable whether someone actually has knowledge—gray areas between clearly knowing something and clearly not knowing it.
    Falsifiable(as a key characteristic of scientific claims)
    Capable of being proven wrong; something is falsifiable if we can imagine evidence or an experiment that would show it's false.
    KK(the main concept being discussed)
    A principle in epistemology (the study of knowledge) that says: if you know something, then you must also know that you know it. It's the idea that knowledge requires awareness of your own knowledge.
    Self-undermining(in logic and argument)
    When an idea or rule contradicts itself or destroys the very thing it's trying to achieve.
    Vindicating

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    (The statement contrasts what Davidson's argument actually does versus what it might seem to vindicate)
    Proving something correct or justified; showing that a claim deserves to be believed.
    entailment(Conceptualist framework)
    Understood in terms of truth at a world
    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
    skepticism(Distinguished from relativism as understood in modern philosophy)
    The position that we must suspend judgment about the nature of objects

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