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    It is not the case that If claims (1) and (2) are true, then claim (3) is false — that is, there is fallible knowledge

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    Reasons For

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    Reason for 1 of 2
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    • 1.Knowledge requires truth as a necessary condition, and a belief that 'may turn out to be false' is not yet confirmed as true, making its status as knowledge indeterminate rather than fallible.
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    • 2.The infallibilist tradition (Descartes, early Wittgenstein) holds that 'knowledge' properly applies only when error is logically excluded, so (1) and (2) are jointly inconsistent rather than jointly refuting (3).
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Claim (2) conflates psychological fallibility—we might believe we know when we don't—with epistemic fallibility, which is a distinct and contested property of knowledge itself.
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    • 2.Williamson's knowledge-first epistemology establishes that knowledge is a factive, non-decomposable mental state, meaning fallible 'knowledge' is simply not knowledge but rather justified true belief or weaker.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Claim (1) asserts that knowledge exists
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    • 2.Claim (2) asserts that any of our beliefs may turn out to be false
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    • 3.Claim (3) formulates knowledge as infallible knowledge
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