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    A mental state can only count as knowledge if it satisfies conditions beyond what is required for that state to count as belief.

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    • 1.There can be cases in which a person believes that p but does not know that p.
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    • 2.If belief and knowledge required identical conditions, there could be no cases of belief without knowledge.
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    • 1.Knowledge is not a distinct mental state but rather the most general factive mental state, making belief a derivative subspecies rather than a separate kind (Williamson, Knowledge and Its Limits).
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    • 2.If knowledge is the most general factive mental state, then belief is analyzed in terms of knowledge, not knowledge in terms of belief plus additional conditions.
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    • 3.The direction of analysis running from knowledge to belief undermines the assumption that belief is the more fundamental category to which knowledge adds constraints.
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    • 1.The Gettier problem shows that the traditional 'belief plus conditions' approach systematically fails to capture knowledge, suggesting the framework of the claim is structurally flawed.
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    • 2.Decades of failed attempts to specify conditions that convert belief into knowledge indicate that knowledge and belief may be categorically rather than conditionally distinct mental states.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    A second question concerns the relationship between knowledge and belief. Clearly, a mental state can only count as knowledge if it satisfies certain conditions that go beyond anything that would be required for the state to count as belief. Thus, there can be cases in which a person believes that p but does not know that p. A question arises, however, as to whether the converse also holds. That is, a question arises as to whether a mental state must satisfy certain conditions to count as a beli
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