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    Challenges→Knowledge consists in the relation of one thing to some other thing, as which it is known.

    A subject can correctly identify X as Y through lucky coincidence, meaning the relational account Schlick offers is insufficient without an anti-luck or causal constraint.

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    • 1.Gettier cases show pure relational matching between belief and world cannot constitute knowledge without excluding lucky cases.
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    • 2.A subject believing 'the clock shows 3pm' correctly matches reality by accident if the clock is broken but happens to be right.
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    • 3.Causal or anti-luck constraints filter out coincidental matches, preserving intuitions that lucky true beliefs aren't knowledge.
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    • 1.Some true beliefs formed through reliable processes (e.g., testimony) may lack direct causal links yet constitute genuine knowledge.
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    • 2.Anti-luck conditions risk being too restrictive, potentially excluding justified true beliefs that we intuitively call knowledge.
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    • 3.The problem may lie not in Schlick's relational account itself but in which relations matter—not all relations equally matter for knowledge.
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