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    It is not the case that Right opinion is less valuable than knowledge even when unreliable causal influences can be ruled out.

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    Reasons For

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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