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    It is not the case that An agent who believes a non-king to be a king does not know that the man is not a king

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    Reasons For

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    • 1.Knowledge can be implicit: an agent may know P without having consciously formed the belief that P, if P is entailed by their other knowledge.
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    • 2.The agent who believes X is a king possesses all the information needed to know X is not a non-king, making that knowledge dispositionally present.
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    • 3.Ryle's distinction between knowing-how and knowing-that shows knowledge need not require occurrent belief, undermining the necessity of principle T as stated.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Epistemic states are factive but not exhaustive: an agent's false belief about X being a king does not logically preclude separate knowledge that no man before them is a king.
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    • 2.Plato's Meno paradox and its resolution suggest agents can hold contradictory beliefs simultaneously while genuinely knowing the truth of one of the contradictory propositions.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Knowledge requires belief (principle T)
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    • 2.The agent believes the man is a king, not that the man is not a king
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