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    It is not the case that Plato's Meno paradox and its resolution suggest agents can hold contradictory beliefs simultaneously while genuinely knowing the truth of one of the contradictory propositions.

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    • 1.The Law of Non-Contradiction is fundamental to rationality; no agent can genuinely know P while also genuinely believing not-P.
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    • 2.Plato's resolution via recollection merely defers the problem; latent knowledge still contradicts active false opinion in the same mind.
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    • 3.If knowledge and contradictory belief both exist in one agent, we lack criteria to explain why only one counts as genuine knowledge.
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    • 1.Recollection theory allows knowledge of Forms to coexist with false sensory beliefs about particulars without logical contradiction.
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    • 2.Humans possess multiple cognitive states—some tacit, some explicit—that can hold incompatible contents simultaneously.
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    • 3.Genuine knowledge of universal truths can survive alongside contradictory empirical beliefs if they concern different domains.
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