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Hyman (1999, 2006) argues that knowledge is best conceived as a kind of ability: S knows thatpiff S can ϕ for the reason thatp. Hyman motivates this thesis by appealing to Gettier cases. I argue that it is counterexampled by a certain kind of Gettier case where the fact thatpis a cause of the subject's belief thatp. One can ϕ for the reason thatpeven if one does not know thatp. So knowledge is not best conceived as an ability of this kind.
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