Williamson's argument that justified false belief licenses 'I should assert p' yet also 'p is false' reveals that JNA permits constitutively defective assertions, not merely unlucky ones.

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Assert/Assertion(as the act of making a claim in the statement): When you state something as a fact or claim it's true. For example, saying 'It's raining' is an assertion, while asking 'Is it raining?' is not.
Constitutively defective(describing assertions that are fundamentally problematic): Flawed in a way that goes against the very nature or purpose of the thing itself—like a 'broken promise' where the act itself contains a contradiction.
JNA(Proposed as an alternative to KNA that handles unlucky and Gettiered cases without appeal to independent epistemic standards): Justification Norm of Assertion: a norm holding that an assertion is appropriate only if the asserter is justified in believing the asserted proposition
Justified false belief(describing a type of belief state in epistemology): A belief that you have good reasons to hold, but that turns out to be incorrect anyway—like being confident in a wrong answer on a test based on solid reasoning.

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Williamson

# Williamson Williamson most commonly refers to Timothy Williamson, a prominent British philosopher known for his work on knowledge, logic, and language. He's influential in contemporary philosophy for arguing that knowledge is more fundamental than belief and that traditional definitions of knowledge may be too restrictive. His ideas have shaped how philosophers think about what it means to know something and how language relates to reality.

Williamson's argument that justified false belief licenses 'I should assert p' yet also 'p is false' reveals that JNA permits constitutively defective assertions, not merely unlucky ones.

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