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    It is not the case that Doxastic and epistemic models can be related through bridge principles linking knowledge and belief

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    • 1.Knowledge requires justification or reliability conditions that belief lacks, making their formal structures irreducibly heterogeneous.
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    • 2.Gettier cases demonstrate that justified true belief fails to constitute knowledge, so no reflexivity-to-seriality bridge can capture the real epistemic gap.
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    • 1.Williamson's knowledge-first epistemology treats knowledge as primitive and belief as a derivative, weakened form, inverting the bridge-principle dependency direction.
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    • 2.If belief is defined as 'treating as if one knows' (Williamson 2000), then belief presupposes knowledge conceptually, making symmetric bridge principles circular.
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    • 1.Knowing something implies believing it
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    • 2.If an agent believes φ then the agent knows that the agent believes φ
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    • 3.Both informational attitudes share a common formal structure differing only in the reflexivity vs. seriality condition
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