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    Knowledge is a factive mental state whose truth-conditions are fixed by objective facts about belief, truth, and justification, not conversational context.

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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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