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    Acting on a justified true belief is not sufficient for a... — Carmelics
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    Acting on a justified true belief is not sufficient for acting in light of the corresponding fact.

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    • 1.Gettier (1963) showed that justified true belief is not sufficient for knowledge of the corresponding fact.
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    • 2.Acting in light of a fact requires knowing that fact.
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    • 3.In Gettier-like cases, the connection between the fact and the action is fortuitous.
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    • 1.Reliabilist accounts (Goldman 1979) hold that knowledge requires reliable causal processes, not the absence of Gettier-style luck per se.
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    • 2.If a belief is produced by a reliable process and is true, the agent's action tracks the fact sufficiently for acting 'in light of' it.
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    • 3.The Gettier argument therefore shows only that JTB fails as an analysis of knowledge, not that reliable JTB fails to ground fact-responsive action.
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    • 1.Williamson's (2000) knowledge-first epistemology is itself contested: many philosophers (e.g., Turri) argue knowledge is constituted by, not prior to, justified true belief.
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    • 2.If JTB is constitutive of knowledge rather than merely necessary for it, then acting on JTB just is acting on knowledge, making the claim's supporting P2 circular.
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    • 3.The inference from Gettier cases to a gap between JTB and fact-responsive action illicitly assumes knowledge-first semantics as an unargued premise.
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    We noted above that most if not all accounts of acting for a motivating reason require as a condition that the agent be in some kind of epistemic relation to the reason that motivates her. And we saw also that a widespread view is that this epistemic relation is one of belief: for an agent to act for the reason that p, the agent must believe that p. It is this thought that led many to endorse the view that reasons are mental states (often as part of the “desire-belief” conception of reasons for
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