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    Supports→A more modest version of virtue epistemology should countenance the essential role of the environment in the acquisition of knowledge.

    Even heroic levels of cognitive agency cannot fully compensate for an unfavorable epistemic environment.

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    This suggestion is in line with the third main response to epistemic situationism, which is to somehow offload some of the cognitive agency traditionally required of the individual onto the material, social, or political environment. For instance, Pritchard (2014) argues for a more modest version of VE that countenances the essential role of the environment in the acquisition of knowledge. Someone who is luckily placed in their material, social, and political environment will end up with more kn

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