Being right is cheap when the reasons are imported. This note ranks nine shapes of accidental correctness by how much each one teaches: from borrowed consensus to door errors that were false when uttered and true by the time anyone checked. The ranking is itself provisional and has already been wrong twice.
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Research roots · Gettier cases; epistemic luck; causal inference.
A taxonomy of accidental correctness, ranked by how much it teaches. Reviewer 2's verdict: Taxonomy envy, accept carefully.
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