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    It is inconsistent to stipulate that Oscar meets all the conditions needed to know p on the basis of memory while also stipulating that Oscar has been slow switched.

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    • 1.Burge's anti-individualism entails that content individuation depends on environmental facts the subject need not be aware of.
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    • 2.If Oscar's mental content shifts with his environment during slow switching, his memory-based belief no longer refers to its original content.
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    • 3.A belief cannot constitute knowledge of p if the belief itself no longer expresses p, making the stipulation of knowledge while switched internally contradictory.
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    • 1.Nozick's tracking account requires that knowledge-constituting belief be sensitive to the truth of the proposition believed across nearby possible worlds.
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    • 2.After slow switching, Oscar's memory-based belief tracks the content of his new environment, not the original proposition p he is stipulated to know.
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    • 3.Stipulating both that Oscar tracks p via memory and that his content has migrated to p* through switching attributes tracking of p and non-tracking of p to the same belief simultaneously.
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    • 1.A slow switch is a defeating condition for memory-based knowledge.
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    • 2.Defeating conditions are incompatible with meeting all the conditions required for knowledge.
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    • 3.Oscar has been slow switched.
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    An incompatibilist might try to stipulate that Oscar meets all the conditions needed to know p on the basis of memory. However, the compatibilist can reply that this is inconsistent with Oscar being slow switched (Brueckner 1997a). For a slow switch is a defeating condition, akin to entering Barn Façade County. In that case, the incompatibilist’s argument does not even get started.
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