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    Challenges→Finite axiomatizability of S_2 or T_2 is an open problem, and modal epistemologists following Williamson hold that possibility claims require more than the absence of known refutations.

    Williamson's safety principle, while plausible for knowledge, may overconstrain modal epistemology and conflate metaphysical possibility with justified assertability.

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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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