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Judy’s instructions are to give everybody the same instructions, which are actually correct, but that if she sees Michael, the get together shall be moved to a different location. (The host doesn't need Michael to search out the party.) Suppose Michael by no means shows up. If a given visitor doesn't, but very practically does, resolve to wear a very realistic Michael costume to the get together, then his belief, based mostly in Judy’s testament, concerning the whereabouts of the celebration shall be true, but may, ComesaƱa says, simply have been false. (Had he merely made a barely different choice about his costume, he would have been deceived.) ComesaƱa describes the case as a counterexample to a safety condition on knowledge. However, it is open to a security theorist to argue that the related skeptical situation, although attainable and in some sense nearby, just isn't near enough in the relevant respect to falsify the protection condition. Such a theorist would, if s