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    Knowledge should not be expected to require reliability — Carmelics
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    Knowledge should not be expected to require reliability

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    • 1.Gettier cases show that reliably-produced true belief still fails to constitute knowledge, undermining reliability as a necessary condition.
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    • 2.If reliability cannot survive Gettier-style counterexamples, it is not a genuine requirement of knowledge but merely a contingent correlate.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's hinge propositions in 'On Certainty' function as knowledge without any reliability-grounding mechanism being applicable.
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    • 2.Knowledge of basic framework propositions is presupposed by reliability assessments themselves, making reliability explanatorily circular as a requirement.
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    • 1.If knowledge is an achievement, then knowledge should behave like other achievements
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    • 2.No other achievement requires reliability
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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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    A fourth response is that there is no evidence that knowledge requires the sort of dispositions that epistemic situationism challenges and, moreover, that there is theoretical and empirical evidence that knowledge does not require such dispositions (Turri 2017). More specifically, according to this line of criticism, no serious argument has ever been provided that knowledge requires reliability; instead, philosophers have relied on weak explanatory arguments or, more commonly, simply assumed tha
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