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In this commentary on Rott’s paper “Stability, Strength and Sensitivity: Converting Belief into Knowledge”, I discuss two problems of the stability theory of knowledge which are pointed out by Rott. I conclude that these problems offer no reason for rejecting the stability theory, but might be grounds for deviating from the standard AGM account of belief revision which Rott presupposes.
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Mechtenberg, L. (2004). The Stability Theory of Knowledge and Belief Revision: Comments on Rott. In: Brendel, E., Jäger, C. (eds) Contextualisms in Epistemology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3835-6_21
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