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    Pritchard's epistemic luck taxonomy distinguishes veritic... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The virtue-theoretic account of knowledge cannot fully explain the knowledge-luck incompatibility by appealing to virtue alone

    Pritchard's epistemic luck taxonomy distinguishes veritic luck from reflective luck; virtue reliabilism addresses the latter but structurally underdetermines the former.

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    • 1.Veritic luck (truth by accident) and reflective luck (justified-belief failure) are conceptually distinct phenomena requiring different theoretical treatments.
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    • 2.Virtue reliabilism successfully explains how intellectual virtues eliminate reflective luck by grounding justified belief in stable, trustworthy cognitive dispositions.
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    • 3.No existing virtue reliabilist account provides sufficient conditions for agent knowledge that rules out cases where true beliefs result from fortunate accident rather than virtue.
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    • 1.Virtues themselves appear to address both veritic and reflective luck simultaneously—a reliable faculty producing true belief eliminates both accidental truth and unjustified belief.
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    • 2.Pritchard's taxonomy assumes luck comes in fundamentally different species, but virtue reliabilism may dissolve this distinction by treating all knowledge-undermining luck uniformly.
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    • 3.The claim that virtue reliabilism 'structurally underdetermines' veritic luck lacks clear meaning—either the theory handles it or doesn't, and the distinction may be artificial.
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