How Knowledge Helps
Judy’s directions are to offer everyone the identical directions, that are in reality accurate, but that if she sees Michael, the get together might be moved to a different location. (The host doesn't need Michael to search out the celebration.) Suppose Michael by no means exhibits up. If a given visitor doesn't, but very practically does, decide to put on a very practical Michael costume to the get together, then his perception, based mostly in Judy’s testament, about the whereabouts of the get together might be true, but could, Comesaña says, easily have been false . (Had he merely made a slightly different choice about his costume, he would have been deceived.) Comesaña describes the case as a counterexample to a safety condition on knowledge. However, it's open to a security theorist to argue that the related skeptical scenario, although possible and in some sense nearby, just isn't near enough in the relevant respect to falsify the protection situation. Such a th