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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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