Re: modal scope fallacy


Compare:

Necessarily, if A knows that p, then p

with

If A knows that p, then necessarily p.

The first true, the second false. Or at the very least: the first is a
triviality on any standard account of what "knows" means: the second
is the highly tendentious claim that we can only know necessary truths
(i.e. can't know contingent truths). So they are two very different
claims here.

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