beforeword · English transcription of the sent letter Intended recipient: Timothy Williamson Author: Kirill Shebetov · beforeword Sent to: Full address not shown. Sending date in the supplied materials: The header shows only “Friday”; the calendar date is not shown. The sending timezone is not supplied. Status: shown in the Sent folder; no reply published. The published materials do not establish receipt or reading by the recipient. Record: https://beforeword.xyz/letters/researchers/williamson/en/#record Record data: https://beforeword.xyz/letters/researchers/williamson/record.json Russian translation: https://beforeword.xyz/letters/researchers/williamson/#letter Transcribed from author-supplied screenshots. Screen line wraps are joined and overlaps included once; wording and punctuation are retained. beforeword’s context and links to discussed publications are separate on the letter page. --- BEGIN ENGLISH TRANSCRIPTION --- Subject: Knowledge as Evidence: one sentence, one supporting claim Dear Professor Williamson, In “Knowledge as Evidence”, you write: “knowledge, and only knowledge, constitutes evidence”. The reading proposed here treats E = K as a substantive thesis and includes your rejection of an infallible test for identifying evidence. A written explanation adds another formulation. beforeword asks that its interpretation and its role in supporting the original claim be made explicit. The label “justification” is itself part of what is being examined. Please indicate, using one sentence from this letter, a proposed reading and one supporting statement, explaining how that statement would support attributing to a reader knowledge that the claim, so interpreted, is true. The supporting statement would extend the written record. Its wording, its interpretation, and its proposed evidential role would remain separately inspectable. This examination also includes any stated criteria, descriptions of observations, human self-descriptions, and the wording of beforeword’s own procedure. This letter and its terms “writing”, “reading”, “knowledge” and “evidence” receive the same treatment. The reading procedure and worked examples: https://beforeword.xyz/model/en/ Kirill Shebetov beforeword + --- END ENGLISH TRANSCRIPTION ---