Timothy Williamson
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Timothy Williamson is a prominent contemporary British philosopher known for his influential work in epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language.
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| Timothy Williamson canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Timothy Williamson Context triple: [Michael Dummett, influenced, Timothy Williamson]
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Michael T. Williamson
Michael T. Williamson is an American actor best known for his role as Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue in the film Forrest Gump.
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B.
Timothy Shelley
Timothy Shelley was an English baronet and Member of Parliament best known as the father of Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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C.
Timothy Church
Timothy Church is a notable individual who bears the surname Church, recognized for his contributions in his respective field.
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D.
Rowan D. Wilson
Rowan D. Wilson is an American jurist who serves as the Chief Judge of New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, overseeing the state’s judiciary.
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E.
Damien P. George
Damien P. George is a British physicist and software engineer best known for creating MicroPython, a lean implementation of Python for microcontrollers and embedded systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Timothy Williamson Target entity description: Timothy Williamson is a prominent contemporary British philosopher known for his influential work in epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language.
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A.
Michael T. Williamson
Michael T. Williamson is an American actor best known for his role as Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue in the film Forrest Gump.
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B.
Timothy Shelley
Timothy Shelley was an English baronet and Member of Parliament best known as the father of Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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C.
Timothy Church
Timothy Church is a notable individual who bears the surname Church, recognized for his contributions in his respective field.
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D.
Rowan D. Wilson
Rowan D. Wilson is an American jurist who serves as the Chief Judge of New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, overseeing the state’s judiciary.
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E.
Damien P. George
Damien P. George is a British physicist and software engineer best known for creating MicroPython, a lean implementation of Python for microcontrollers and embedded systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (70)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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human ⓘ philosopher ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
BA in mathematics and philosophy
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DPhil in philosophy ⓘ |
| academicPosition |
Fellow of New College, Oxford
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Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh ⓘ Wykeham Professor of Logic at New College, Oxford ⓘ
surface form:
Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford
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| birthCountry | Sweden ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1955-08-06 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Uppsala ⓘ |
| birthYear | 1955 ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Balliol College, Oxford
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Henley Grammar School ⓘ |
| employer |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Princeton University ⓘ University of Edinburgh ⓘ University of Oxford ⓘ Yale University ⓘ |
| familyName | Williamson ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
epistemology
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metaphysics ⓘ philosophical logic ⓘ philosophy of language ⓘ philosophy of mind ⓘ philosophy of modality ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Timothy ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
epistemic limits of thought
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knowledge as a mental state ⓘ knowledge as unanalyzable primitive ⓘ margin for error principles ⓘ safety condition on knowledge ⓘ |
| hasView |
philosophy is continuous with science in method
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there are metaphysically necessary but a priori unknowable truths ⓘ vagueness is a semantic phenomenon of ignorance, not indeterminacy in reality ⓘ |
| influenced |
contemporary epistemology
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contemporary metaphysics ⓘ contemporary philosophy of language ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Bertrand Russell
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David Lewis ⓘ Gottlob Frege ⓘ Saul Kripke ⓘ Willard Van Orman Quine ⓘ
surface form:
W. V. O. Quine
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| isKnownFor |
critique of anti-realism
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defense of epistemicism about vagueness ⓘ defense of metaphysical realism ⓘ knowledge-first epistemology ⓘ work on counterfactuals ⓘ work on modal logic ⓘ work on the limits of knowledge ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
counterfactual conditionals
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modality ⓘ nature of knowledge ⓘ necessity and possibility ⓘ vagueness ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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British Academy ⓘ Royal Society of Edinburgh ⓘ |
| name | Timothy Williamson self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Identity and Discrimination
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Knowledge and Its Limits ⓘ Modal Logic as Metaphysics ⓘ Tetralogue ⓘ The Philosophy of Philosophy ⓘ “The Problem of Vagueness” ⓘ
surface form:
Vagueness
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| philosophicalSchool | analytic philosophy ⓘ |
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