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    If complete conviction were the source of knowledge's val... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Knowledge is more valuable than right opinion because when you know, you know that you know, giving you complete conviction.

    If complete conviction were the source of knowledge's value, dogmatists and the self-deceived would possess the most valuable epistemic states, which is absurd.

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    • 1.Knowledge requires truth-conduciveness; conviction alone permits false beliefs, so conviction cannot be knowledge's sole source of value.
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    • 2.Epistemic value should track intellectual virtue; dogmatism and self-deception are intellectual vices, not virtues.
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    • 3.If conviction were paramount, we'd lose grounds to distinguish justified from unjustified belief, collapsing epistemic standards.
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    • 1.The argument conflates conviction's sufficiency with its necessity; conviction may enhance knowledge's value without being its only source.
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    • 2.Dogmatists might possess additional virtues (like intellectual courage) that offset conviction's role, making their states valuably complex.
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    • 3.Absurdity judgments reflect our current intuitions, not objective facts; perhaps conviction *should* count more heavily than we assume.
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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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