jats:titleAbstract</jats:title>jats:pAn important question in epistemology is whether the KK principle is true, i.e., whether an agent who knows that jats:italicp</jats:italic> is also thereby in a position to know that she knows that jats:italicp</jats:italic>. We explain how a “transparency” account of self‐knowledge, which maintains that we learn about our attitudes towards a proposition by reflecting not on ourselves but rather on that very proposition, supports an affirmative answer. In particular, we show that such an account allows us to reconcile a version of the KK principle with an “externalist” or “reliabilist” conception of knowledge commonly thought to make that principle particularly problematic.</jats:p>