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One aim of this paper is to make some suggestions about the role of reasons in knowledge. The other is to sketch an approach to the nature of knowledge which will put that question into a correct perspective. That sketch will indeed be sketchy, and most of what I shall say schematic. My aim is to put the main issues into what seems to me the right overall shape.

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© 1972 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands

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Williams, B.A.O. (1972). Knowledge and Reasons. In: von Wright, G.H. (eds) Problems in the Theory of Knowledge / Problèmes de la Théorie de la Connaissance. International Institute of Philosophy Entretiens in Helsinki / Institut International de Philosophie Entretiens de Helsinki, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2764-9_1

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