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| | The Epistemic Closure Principle (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) |
 | | It occurs to you that zeb entails not-mule, it is not the case that the animal in the cage is a cleverly disguised mule rather than a zebra. |
 | | 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). |
 | | By 2, knowledge security implies knowledge: evidence that entails p also entails anything that p entails, so if S has evidence that entails p, and believes q upon seeing it is entailed by p, then S's evidence entails q. |
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