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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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