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    If knowledge is the most general factive mental state, th... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→A mental state can only count as knowledge if it satisfies conditions beyond what is required for that state to count as belief.

    If knowledge is the most general factive mental state, then belief is analyzed in terms of knowledge, not knowledge in terms of belief plus additional conditions.

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    • 1.Knowledge involves truth, justification, and belief. If knowledge is more fundamental, belief should be defined as knowledge minus certainty or infallibility conditions.
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    • 2.Analyzing belief through knowledge avoids the infinite regress problem in justification by grounding belief in knowledge's more basic structure.
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    • 3.Historically, knowledge has been treated as the epistemic achievement; belief is mere propositional attitude. Priority should follow explanatory importance.
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    • 1.Belief is psychologically prior: infants and animals have beliefs without knowledge. Conceptually defining belief via knowledge inverts actual cognitive development.
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    • 2.Knowledge requires justified true belief plus anti-Gettier conditions. Defining belief through knowledge creates circularity since knowledge itself presupposes belief.
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    • 3.False beliefs are commonplace and explanatory important; they cannot be analyzed as defective knowledge without distorting their role in human reasoning and action.
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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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