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    Supports→Fitch's knowability argument does not straightforwardly apply to paraconsistent logics

    If possible worlds can be inconsistent, as in Priest's impossible worlds semantics, then a world where K(p ∧ ¬Kp) holds need not be ruled out by modal logic's standard duality axioms.

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    Key Terms

    Duality axioms (in modal logic)(as the traditional constraints being potentially violated)
    Standard rules in logic that establish relationships between possibility and necessity—for instance, 'it's possible that X' is the opposite of 'it's necessary that not-X.'
    Impossible worlds semantics(as used in logic)
    A framework for modal logic that allows for considering not just possible scenarios, but logically impossible ones too, to better understand how meaning works.
    K(p ∧ ¬Kp)(as the symbolic notation in the statement (K = knows, p = a proposition, ∧ = and, ¬ = not))
    A logical formula meaning 'someone knows that [p is true AND they don't know p]'—it describes a paradoxical situation where knowledge contains its own contradiction.
    Modal logic(logic)
    A system of logic that deals with concepts like possibility, necessity, and what could or must be true.

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    Priest, Graham(philosopher who extended paraconsistent logic)
    An Australian philosopher who took da Costa's ideas and developed them further, becoming one of the main defenders of the idea that some contradictions can actually be true.
    possible worlds(Leibniz's modal semantics, anticipating contemporary possible-worlds semantics)
    Worlds that have existence in a tenuous sense; fictional worlds used to characterize the nature of possibles that are never actualized

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