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    Challenges→To act in light of a fact that is a reason, an agent needs to know the relevant fact.

    If sub-doxastic or tacit sensitivity to a fact suffices to make that fact operative in an agent's practical reasoning, knowledge is not necessary for acting in its light.

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    • 1.Agents routinely navigate environments by responding to implicit patterns without conscious propositional awareness of those patterns.
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    • 2.If knowledge requires justified true belief or related conditions, tacit sensitivity can guide action without meeting those requirements.
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    • 3.Evolutionary and developmental evidence shows adaptive behavior precedes and doesn't depend on explicit conceptual knowledge.
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    • 1.Sub-doxastic sensitivity may be reliable without constituting genuine responsiveness to facts, only to stimuli patterns.
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    • 2.Acting successfully in light of a fact requires some form of cognitive representation that plausibly constitutes knowledge or justified belief.
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    • 3.Distinguishing successful action 'in light of' a fact from mere causal influence requires epistemic standards knowledge typically satisfies.
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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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