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    It is not the case that Timothy Williamson's argument in 'Knowledge and Its Limits' demonstrates that KKφ fails for creatures with margin-of-error constraints, even under strong epistemic requirements.

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    • 1.KKφ failure doesn't require margin-of-error constraints; it follows from general fallibilism about introspective knowledge of knowledge states.
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    • 2.Williamson's argument targets luminosity generally, not specifically creatures with margin-of-error constraints, making the specificity claim unsupported.
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    • 3.Strong epistemic requirements might permit KKφ by redefining 'knowledge' to exclude margin-of-error cases, preserving the principle for remaining cases.
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    • 1.Creatures with margin-of-error constraints cannot know they know, since they cannot eliminate nearby error possibilities about their knowledge itself.
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    • 2.KKφ requires luminosity of knowledge, but luminosity is incompatible with the limited discriminatory capacities that margin-of-error constraints impose.
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    • 3.Williamson's anti-luminosity argument shows knowledge needn't be accessible to introspection, undermining KKφ for epistemically limited agents.
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