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The paper introduces a new non-factive theory of knowledge, employing the recent theory of verisimilitude developed by Jakob Süskind to model the relative adequacy of representations as their approximation to truth. It makes the relation of representation one of the necessary conditions of knowledge without requiring the truth condition to be satisfied. However, the relation of knowledge to truth is built at the meta-level into the notion of the adequacy of representations, which enables the proposed theory to cover any thinkable case of research yielding real knowledge, although of a non-factive kind. Despite its universality, the theory relativizes knowledge to a set of research questions, while rejecting alethic relativism, which — it is argued — does not provide a satisfactory explanation of truth in reasoning about the growth and extinction of scientific knowledge.
本文介绍了一种新的非事实性知识理论，采用Jakob s skind最近发展的真实性理论来模拟表征的相对充分性，作为它们对真理的近似。它使表象关系成为认识的必要条件之一，而不需要满足真条件。然而，知识与真理的关系是在元层面上建立在表征充分性的概念中，这使得所提出的理论能够涵盖任何可以想象的产生真实知识的研究案例，尽管是一种非事实性的研究。尽管它具有普遍性，但该理论将知识相对于一系列研究问题，同时拒绝了真性相对主义，因为它认为真性相对主义在科学知识的增长和灭绝的推理中不能提供令人满意的真理解释。
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Acta Analytica is an international journal for philosophy in the analytical tradition covering a variety of philosophical topics including philosophical logic, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science and philosophy of mind. Special attention is devoted to cognitive science. The journal aims to promote a rigorous, argument-based approach in philosophy. Acta Analytica is a peer reviewed journal, published quarterly, with authors from all over the world.
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