Logos & Episteme

Volume 10, Issue 4, 2019

Knowledge Doesn’t Require Epistemic Certainty
A Reply to Mizrahi

In a recent discussion note in this journal, Moti Mizrahi offers us the following argument for the conclusion that knowledge requires epistemic certainty: 1) If S knows that p on the grounds that e, then p cannot be false given e. 2) If p cannot be false given e, then e makes p epistemically certain. 3) Therefore, if S knows that p on the grounds that e, then e makes p epistemically certain. I’ll argue that (2) of Mizrahi’s argument is false, and so, Mizrahi’s argument is unsound.