Time Constraints and Pragmatic Encroachment on Knowledge

What is it about?

In this work, I present some empirical evidence suggesting that the less time you have to deliberate about some proposition, the more inclined you are to know it. More generally, I present evidence to suggest that whether S knows that p can, in some cases, depend on how much time S has to deliberate about p.

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Why is it important?

To date, pragmatic encroachers have focused on one potential practical feature, namely, the role of stakes on knowledge attributions. However, the purported stakes-sensitivity, has been met by various alternative explanations (e.g., purist contextualism, and moderate invariantism). I explore how a different practical feature--the epistemic subject's time constraints-- might affect folk knowledge attributions. This provides a new way for pragmatic encroachers to argue for the thesis.