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    Supports→It is impossible for humans to know that any quality or idea has a necessary connection with a real essence.

    Knowledge of a necessary connection between a quality or idea and a real essence requires having an idea of that real essence.

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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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    …it is impossible for us to know, that this or that quality or Idea has a necessary connexion with a real Essence, of which we have no Idea at all, whatever Species that supposed real Essence may be imagined to constitute. (IV.vi.5)

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