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    Challenges→If knowledge is the most general factive mental state, then belief is analyzed in terms of knowledge, not knowledge in terms of belief plus additional conditions.

    False beliefs are commonplace and explanatory important; they cannot be analyzed as defective knowledge without distorting their role in human reasoning and action.

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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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