This is an interesting “rebuttal” to the goal of defining “true knowledge”. I’ll have to think more about this.
It may help to note that Bayesianism (the form of epistemology most popular at LW) rejects the entire idea of justified true belief or anything similar to it, and only talks about degrees of certainty, but I think you already know that.
Related articles:
How to Convince Me That 2 + 2 = 3Infinite Certainty0 And 1 Are Not Probabilities
tl;dr: 100% probability = ∞ evidence; you really don’t have it
This is an interesting “rebuttal” to the goal of defining “true knowledge”. I’ll have to think more about this.
It may help to note that Bayesianism (the form of epistemology most popular at LW) rejects the entire idea of justified true belief or anything similar to it, and only talks about degrees of certainty, but I think you already know that.
Related articles:
How to Convince Me That 2 + 2 = 3
Infinite Certainty
0 And 1 Are Not Probabilities
tl;dr: 100% probability = ∞ evidence; you really don’t have it