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Careful with knowledge ascriptions!

Mikkel Gerken: On folk epistemology: how we think and talk about knowledge. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, 352pp, £45 HB

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I would like to thank Mikkel Gerken, Michael Hannon, Pierre Saint-Germier, Sam Schindler and Barry Smith for helpful discussions on the book and for comments on an earlier version of this review. This work was supported by and developed as part of the Sapere Aude Project Intuitions in Science and Philosophy funded by Danish Council for Independent Research [grant number DFF 4180-00071].

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Drożdżowicz, A. Careful with knowledge ascriptions!. Metascience 28, 45–49 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-018-0385-0

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