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    It is not the case that Williamson's knowledge norm of assertion establishes that the threshold for epistemic propriety is fixed by the standard itself, not by the difficulty agents face in meeting it.

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    • 1.Normative standards governing human conduct must be reachable by ordinarily capable agents, or they become practically incoherent and alienating.
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    • 2.The knowledge norm demands certainty most humans cannot achieve, making virtually all everyday assertions epistemically improper by Williamson's account.
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    • 3.Social norms for assertion evolved to facilitate communication under real cognitive constraints; ignoring difficulty makes the norm disconnected from its function.
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    • 1.Epistemic standards must be objective criteria independent of agents' psychological limitations, or they collapse into mere relativism.
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    • 2.If propriety tracked difficulty rather than truth-conditions, assertion norms would vary wildly across individuals with different cognitive capacities.
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    • 3.Knowledge represents a genuine epistemic achievement; lowering standards based on agent difficulty undermines what makes assertion valuable.
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