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    Challenges→Acquaintance with a fact alone is not sufficient to justify belief in the corresponding proposition

    One may be acquainted with a specific color or shape in one's visual field and believe one is experiencing that color or shape, yet be bad at identifying such features, making the belief little more than a lucky guess

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    acquainted with(epistemology (theory of knowledge))
    Having direct, immediate experience of something through your senses, rather than just knowing about it secondhand.
    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
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    Getting something right by chance rather than through skill, understanding, or reliable judgment.
    visual field(philosophy of perception)
    Everything you can see at any given moment—the total area of your vision including colors, shapes, and objects in front of you.

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    Some doubt that acquaintance with some fact is sufficient, on its own, to justify belief in a corresponding proposition. To help see the motivation for this, consider inferential beliefs again. A justified belief that P cannot provide justification for believing every other proposition it entails, for it might be that the entailment relation is beyond one’s cognitive grasp, or the inference is not something one has made or is even able to make. (As already discussed in section 1, reflection on

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