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    Quinn's compulsively trusting nature makes his attitude i... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→TV-S is false.

    Quinn's compulsively trusting nature makes his attitude insensitive to counterevidence in a way that precludes his belief from amounting to knowledge.

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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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    Kevin knows that p.Quinn does not know that p.TV-S is false.

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    Opponents argue that while Kevin knows that p, Quinn does not, i.e., because of his compulsively trusting nature, Quinn’s attitude is insensitive to counterevidence in a way that precludes his belief from being amounting to knowledge. Thus, TV-S is false. (This Compulsively Trusting case comes from Lackey 2008. See also Graham 2000b).

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