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    Right opinion is less valuable than knowledge even when u... — Carmelics
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    Right opinion is less valuable than knowledge even when unreliable causal influences can be ruled out.

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    • 1.Right opinion is in some way always based on conjecture.
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    • 2.Right opinion relies on merely contingent connections between ideas.
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    • 3.Beliefs based on conjecture and contingent connections are held with some degree of diffidence.
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    • 1.Pragmatic success in action depends on the reliability of a belief's outcomes, not on the psychological certainty with which it is held.
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    • 2.A true belief that reliably guides successful action has equal instrumental value to knowledge, regardless of the agent's epistemic attitude toward it.
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    • 3.William James and C.S. Peirce established that the practical difference between knowledge and reliable true belief collapses when behavioral consequences are identical.
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    • 1.Diffidence in belief-holding is epistemically virtuous when evidence is genuinely uncertain, not a deficiency indicating lower cognitive value.
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    • 2.Socrates in the Meno concedes that right opinion sufficiently guides action, undermining the premise that conviction-strength maps onto epistemic or practical worth.
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    SkepticismTruth & 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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    Ross might say in reply in the case of right opinion you cannot rule out that such causes are operating on your opinion, whereas in the case of knowledge you can, because, on his conception of knowledge, when you know, you know you know. You have complete conviction (RG 147). This might make knowledge more valuable. And, he might continue, even if you can rule out such causes in the case of right opinion right opinion is less valuable than knowledge because it is in some way always based on conj
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