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    Knowledge acquisition requires active attention, not occurrent propositional knowledge, on at least some occasions.

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    • 1.In both a priori and perceptual cases, knowledge acquisition seems to require attention on at least some occasions.
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    • 2.The requirement on gaining knowledge from experience cannot be that one must be bearing relevant propositions in mind at the time of experience.
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    • 3.The requirement on recognizing an a priori entitlement cannot be that one must entertain prior propositional knowledge from which that entitlement is deduced.
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    • 1.Dispositional knowledge-how and implicit procedural memory can guide reliable belief formation without any occurrent attentional episode.
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    • 2.Ryle's distinction between knowing-that and knowing-how shows that much epistemic progress occurs through habituated, attention-independent competence.
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    • 3.If skilled experts acquire knowledge during automatized performance precisely when focal attention is withdrawn, attention is neither necessary nor sufficient for knowledge acquisition.
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    • 1.Higher-order thought theories (Rosenthal) locate epistemic access in representational availability, not attentional direction, making attention epiphenomenal to the core cognitive work.
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    • 2.Subliminal priming studies demonstrate that subjects acquire statistically robust propositional dispositions from stimuli presented below the threshold of attentional access, undermining the necessity claim.
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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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    In both the a priori case and the perceptual case, the acquisition of knowledge seems to require attention on at least some occasions, and in both of these cases that requirement seems to be a practical one. It may be that knowledge of some propositions is required if one’s experience with a gorilla is to provide one with knowledge of the gorilla’s presence (with the propositions here being of a sort that could serve as a major premise in an inference by which one’s perceptual experience was int
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    Subliminal priming studies demonstrate that subjects acquire statistically robus...
    The requirement on gaining knowledge from experience cannot be that one must be ...
    The requirement on recognizing an a priori entitlement cannot be that one must e...
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