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    It is not the case that Acting on a justified true belief is not sufficient for acting in light of the corresponding fact.

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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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    • 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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