[Bups-dis] truth tracking and necessity

[James Cunningham]

Andrew,

Nozick doesn't need to go anything like as far as to say if you believe p
then you know p (if p is necessary). That would only be the case if the
fourth condition were abandoned too. As it is Nozick ends up with a sort of
back door reliablism: S knows p iff:

1)S believes p
2)p is true
3)If p were true and S were to use method M to arrive at a belief whether
(or not) p, then S would believe, via M, that p.

I think you can dispense with the method M stuff if you use a possible
worlds account, but I am starting to think that there may be a sting in the
tail of possible worlds talk in epistemology.

x

James