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The Value of Knowledge

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Ryan S.
Dialogue and Universalism
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2014
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issue 3
84-88
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In this paper I make the case that we should reject an argument that even knowledge of pointless truths has pro tanto final value. The argument draws on Greco’s virtue epis-temological account of knowledge, according to which knowledge is an achievement and achievements have final value in virtue of being constitutive of the good life. I ar-gue for my position by drawing on a case of knowledge of a pointless truth unlike pre-vious cases of pointless truths discussed in the literature. This is a case in which knowledge of a pointless truth is very cheaply gained, and so it is a case in which the disvalue of the cost of gaining the knowledge cannot plausibly outweigh the supposed pro tanto final value of knowledge.
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