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    Challenges→If claims (1) and (2) are true, then claim (3) is false — that is, there is fallible knowledge

    Knowledge requires truth as a necessary condition, and a belief that 'may turn out to be false' is not yet confirmed as true, making its status as knowledge indeterminate rather than fallible.

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    Key Terms

    Indeterminate(Reichenbach's three-valued quantum logic)
    The value of propositions that quantum theory implies cannot be assessed to be either true or false
    belief(Hume's account of causal inference, Treatise I.III.7–8)
    An idea that is almost as vivid and forceful as the impression of which it was once a copy
    epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
    A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
    fallible(Applied to individual, group, and asymptotic group judgments under Possible Underdetermination)
    Incorrect with non-zero probability.
    knowledge

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    (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.
    necessary condition(Counterfactual analysis of causation; Mackie 1965, 1974)
    A condition C is necessary for event E if E would not have occurred in the absence of C

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