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If justification fails to reliably distinguish knowledge ... — Carmelics

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Challenges→Knowledge requires justification as a third condition beyond truth and belief.

If justification fails to reliably distinguish knowledge from mere lucky true belief in Gettier cases, it cannot serve as the necessary third condition.

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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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