Corpus ID: 1954164

Sundholm ’ s Paradox of Knowability : A Novel Paradox ?

@inproceedings{ELGE2009SundholmS,
  title={Sundholm ’ s Paradox of Knowability : A Novel Paradox ?},
  author={ELGE and {\"U}CKERT},
  year={2009}
}

ELGE, ÜCKERT

Published 2009

In this paper I take a closer look at a recently published paradox by Göran Sundholm involving the notion of knowability. I point out that this paradox is not a novel, genuine paradox, but rather an important variant of the Knower Paradox. I briefly discuss further variations of the Knower Paradox, and in a final section I try to show that it is not unproblematic to assume that knowability is factive. There are several different notions and conceptions of knowability. The most straightforward… CONTINUE READING

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