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

    Gettier-style cases show that true belief can fail to constitute knowledge, so the converse—false belief blocking knowledge—is not the sole epistemic concern.

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    • 1.Gettier cases demonstrate justified true belief lacking knowledge (e.g., Smith's ten coins case), proving JTB insufficient.
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    • 2.If truth alone were the sole epistemic concern, we'd accept lucky guesses as knowledge when true, but we intuitively don't.
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    • 3.The proper function of knowledge-attribution is to identify reliable cognitive achievement, which requires more than truth.
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    • 1.Gettier cases show JTB is incomplete, but this doesn't prove falsity is not 'the sole concern'—truth remains necessary.
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    • 2.The claim conflates 'JTB is insufficient' with 'falsity isn't our primary epistemic concern,' which are different theses.
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    • 3.Epistemic systems can require both truth and additional conditions (like causal connection) without abandoning truth's centrality.
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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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    The proper function of knowledge-attribution is to identify reliable cognitive a...