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    Skeptical arguments that rely on the KK thesis can be disarmed by rejecting the KK thesis

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    • 1.Williamson's margin-for-error argument demonstrates that knowledge does not iterate: one can know P without knowing that one knows P.
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    • 2.Skeptical arguments employing luminosity assumptions (e.g., Cartesian demon scenarios) require the agent to know the limits of their own knowledge, presupposing KK.
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    • 3.Once KK is rejected, the skeptic cannot establish that the agent's failure to know they know constitutes a failure of knowledge itself.
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    • 1.Externalist epistemologies (Reliabilism, Safety-based accounts) ground knowledge in world-tracking processes, not in introspective access to one's own epistemic states.
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    • 2.If knowledge requires only reliable belief-formation rather than higher-order awareness, the skeptic's demand that agents verify their knowing is an illegitimate internalist import.
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    • 3.Disarming KK-reliant skepticism by adopting externalism is thus independently motivated by the broader success of externalist theories in handling Gettier cases and perceptual knowledge.
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    • 1.Some skeptical arguments entail the KK thesis as a necessary component
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    • 2.The KK thesis (if you know something, you know that you know it) has been given reason to be rejected following Williamson
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    • 3.If a premise of an argument is false, the argument is disarmed
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    What’s the philosophical payoff if we join Williamson in rejecting KK on these grounds? Skeptical arguments that rely on KK might be disarmed. For example, a skeptic might argue that to know something, you must be able to rule out any competing alternatives. For example, to know the external world is real, you must be able to rule out the possibility that you are being deceived by Descartes’ demon (Stroud 1984). But then you must also be able to rule out the possibility that you don’t know the e
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