Full Idea
Knowledge-first equate one's total evidence with one's total knowledge.
Gist of Idea
Knowledge-first says your total evidence IS your knowledge
Source
Timothy Williamson (Knowledge First (and reply) [2014], p.8)
Book Reference
'Contemporary Debates in Epistemology (2nd ed)', ed/tr. Steup/Turri/Sosa [Wiley Blackwell 2014], p.8
A Reaction
Couldn't lots of evidence which merely had a high probability be combined together to give a state we would call 'knowledge'? Many dubious witnesses confirm the truth, as long as they are independent, and agree.
Related Ideas
Idea 19527 We don't acquire evidence and then derive some knowledge, because evidence IS knowledge [Williamson]
Idea 17067 4: For coherence, observation reports have a degree of intrinsic acceptability [Thagard, by Smart]