Full Idea
How can a causal analysis of justification show that I know that all men die?
Gist of Idea
How can a causal theory of justification show that all men die?
Source
Jonathan Dancy (Intro to Contemporary Epistemology [1985], 2.3)
Book Reference
Dancy,Jonathan: 'Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology' [Blackwell 1985], p.34
A Reaction
I presume he means that inductive generalisations can't be purely causal. The claim that men are immortal is absurd because it is 'unconnected' to what actually happens.