Knowledge requires truth.

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1.False propositions cannot be facts.
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2.Knowledge is knowledge of facts.
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3.Therefore, only true propositions can be known.
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1.Gilbert Ryle's distinction between 'knowing that' and 'knowing how' shows procedural knowledge operates independently of propositional truth conditions.
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2.A skilled archer knows how to shoot accurately even if they hold false beliefs about the physics underlying their technique.
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3.If a form of knowledge can exist without propositional content, truth as a necessary condition for all knowledge is too broad a requirement.
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1.Edmund Gettier demonstrated that justified true belief is insufficient for knowledge, undermining the tripartite analysis that treats truth as a clean necessary condition.
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2.If the relationship between truth and knowledge is more complex than necessity entails, then 'knowledge requires truth' overstates a conceptual entailment that may be merely contingent or contextual.
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Truth & Knowledge

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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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Whenever a knower (S) knows some fact (p), several conditions must obtain. A proposition that S doesn’t even believe cannot be, or express, a fact that S knows. Therefore, knowledge requires belief.[14] False propositions cannot be, or express, facts, and so cannot be known. Therefore, knowledge requires truth. Finally, S’s being correct in believing that p might merely be a matter of luck. For example, if Hal believes he has a fatal illness, not because he was told so by his doctor, but solel

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Type: premise
Perspectives: 3 (1 for, 2 against)
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