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    According to the 'Knowledge First' view, knowledge is a g... — Carmelics
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    According to the 'Knowledge First' view, knowledge is a general state not to be analyzed by satisfying some other conditions; but even on this suggestion, knowledge entails belief and justification.

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    Analyzed(in philosophical discussions about definitions)
    Broken down into smaller parts or simpler concepts to explain what something really is.
    Knowledge First view(in epistemology (the study of knowledge))
    A philosophical position that says knowledge is the most basic building block of understanding and shouldn't be broken down or explained using other ideas.
    belief(Hume's account of causal inference, Treatise I.III.7–8)
    An idea that is almost as vivid and forceful as the impression of which it was once a copy

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    entails(describes a logical relationship between statements)
    Logically forces or guarantees; if A entails B, then whenever A is true, B must also be true.
    justification(Third condition of the tripartite account of knowledge)
    The condition on a knower's belief that excludes mere luck — the belief must be held in a way that is appropriate or warranted, not merely accidentally correct.
    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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    The usual discussions of omniscience treat it as a special case of knowledge, although, perhaps, with such additional features as being arrived at infallibly or through essential omniscience. A standard account of knowledge holds that it is justified true belief, plus a “fourth condition” to avoid counterexamples (see, for example, Chisholm 1989: 90–91). Perhaps, instead, knowledge is warranted true belief, that is, a true belief produced by ones noetic faculties functioning properly in circumstances in which they were designed to function (see, for example, Plantinga 1993). Or, according to a...

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