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    Supports→Nothing yet meets the epistemic standard of perfect knowledge, given the Evil Genius Doubt

    Perfect knowledge requires full indubitability

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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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    Even hyperbolic doubt entails the absence of full indubitability

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    Granted, this indirect doubt is exceedingly hyperbolic. Even so, it entails that we lack the full indubitability requisite to perfect knowledge. Descartes thus closes the pivotal fourth paragraph, clarifying that because of the Evil Genius Doubt, nothing (yet) meets the epistemic standard of perfect knowledge:

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