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    Knowledge is more valuable than right opinion because when you know, you know that you know, giving you complete conviction.

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    • 1.In the case of right opinion, one cannot rule out that unreliable causal processes are operating on that opinion.
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    • 2.In the case of knowledge, one can rule out that unreliable causal processes are operating, because knowledge entails knowing that one knows.
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    • 3.Complete conviction is more valuable than opinion held without such certainty.
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    • 1.Plato's Meno already establishes that right opinion is equally action-guiding as knowledge, undermining any practical superiority grounded in conviction.
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    • 2.The added conviction of 'knowing that one knows' is epistemically idle if the first-order belief is true and reliably formed, as Gettier cases demonstrate.
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    • 3.Higher-order conviction can be present in cases of false belief, so certainty is neither sufficient nor necessary for the value attributed to knowledge.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's On Certainty shows that the felt conviction of 'knowing that one knows' is a psychological state, not an epistemic guarantor of truth.
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    • 2.If complete conviction were the source of knowledge's value, dogmatists and the self-deceived would possess the most valuable epistemic states, which is absurd.
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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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    Ross might say in reply in the case of right opinion you cannot rule out that such causes are operating on your opinion, whereas in the case of knowledge you can, because, on his conception of knowledge, when you know, you know you know. You have complete conviction (RG 147). This might make knowledge more valuable. And, he might continue, even if you can rule out such causes in the case of right opinion right opinion is less valuable than knowledge because it is in some way always based on conj
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