Knowledge, Tables, and Metronomes
‘Knowledge without epistemic certainty’ is like ‘flat table’ and ‘triangular metronome.’ Just as no table is precisely flat and no metronome face precisely triangular, a true belief without epistemic certainty is, strictly speaking, not an item of propositional knowledge. ‘Flat,’ ‘triangular,’ and ‘knowledge’ are applied loosely for practical purposes but are insufficiently precise to qualify as correct uses.
So argues the infallibilist. The fallibilist, no doubt, has objections.