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    Supports→Skeptical arguments that rely on the KK thesis can be disarmed by rejecting the KK thesis

    If knowledge requires only reliable belief-formation rather than higher-order awareness, the skeptic's demand that agents verify their knowing is an illegitimate internalist import.

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    Key Terms

    Externalism(Philosophy of linguistics)
    The view that the forms of actually attested expressions — sentences, phrases, syllables, and systems of such units — are the proper object of linguistic inquiry
    Internalism(Moral psychology; used to characterize the relationship between moral judgment and motivation)
    The view that it is a logical or conceptual truth that some degree of motivation is internal to a moral judgment itself — that making a genuine moral claim entails being motivated to some degree.
    Reliable belief-formation(epistemology)
    A process or method of forming beliefs that tends to produce true beliefs most of the time, like using a dependable thermometer to measure temperature.
    higher-order awareness(Opponent's model rejected by Śrīharṣa)
    An episode of awareness distinct from and directed at a first-order conscious mental occurrence, proposed as an alternative means by which an agent could become aware of her own mental states

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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.
    skeptic(The side usually taken by Academics in epistemological debates)
    One who challenges the possibility of knowledge

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