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    It is not the case that False belief is impossible because one cannot believe what is not the case

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    • 1.Belief is a propositional attitude directed at structured states of affairs, not bare objects or nonentities.
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    • 2.A false belief like 'Theaetetus flies' refers to real constituents (Theaetetus, flying) combined in a false arrangement, not to nothing.
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    • 3.The falsity consists in the mismatch between propositional structure and the world, not in believing a nonexistent object.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Plato's own wax-tablet model in the Theaetetus shows false belief arises from misidentification between memory imprints and perceptions.
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    • 2.Mismatching two genuine entities — e.g., believing Theaetetus is Theodorus — involves only existents, yet yields falsehood.
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    • 3.This refutes the claim on its own terms: false belief need not invoke nonbeing at all, only mistaken relational pairing of real things.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.To believe falsely is to believe what is not — i.e., a nonentity
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    • 2.Just as one cannot perceive a nonentity, one cannot believe a nonentity either
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    • 3.There is no such thing as what is not the case; it is a mere nonentity
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