Download or read book Knowledge and Lotteries written by John Hawthorne and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is organized around an epistemological puzzle: in many cases, we seem consistently inclined to deny that we know a certain class of propositions while crediting ourselves with knowledge of propositions that imply them. The text explores questions on the nature and importance of knowledge.