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Can't we know limiting propositions?
So some limiting propositions are not elusive.
According to Dretske (and perhaps Nozick as well), we cannot easily know that limiting propositions or heavyweight propositions are true.
We do have conclusive reason to believe some limiting propositions, such as that there are physical objects.
Yet nothing in the nature of the conclusive reasons account rules out our knowing limiting propositions using pseudocircular reasoning, which leaves his reservations mysterious.
If not, and if we do know things that entail them, Dretske thinks he has further support for his conclusive reasons view, assuming, as he does, that his view rules out our knowing limiting propositions (while allowing knowledge of things that entail them).
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If I then believe objects, there are physical objects, because it is entailed by jar, I have conclusive reason for believing objects, a limiting proposition.
Still, Dretske might abandon the notion of a limiting proposition in favor of the notion of elusive propositions, and cite, in favor of his conclusive reasons view, and against K, the facts that we cannot know elusive claims but we can know things that imply them.
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In particular, they will not be able to believe propositions attributing specific errors to them, and propositions that entail these off-limit propositions.
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