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    The absence of knowledge does not entail conscious ignora... — Carmelics
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    The absence of knowledge does not entail conscious ignorance of that absence

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    • 1.Knowledge is an evidence-based act of considering something and apprehending its factuality
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    • 2.The absence of such an act is not itself a conscious state of ignorance
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    • 1.Metacognitive awareness is a constitutive feature of rational minds, not an optional addition to their epistemic states.
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    • 2.A mind capable of knowledge-acts is thereby capable of registering their absence as a felt privation, not mere non-occurrence.
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    • 3.Heytesbury's separation of absence-of-knowledge from conscious ignorance conflates the logical and phenomenological dimensions of epistemic states.
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    • 1.Socratic ignorance, as theorized from the Meno onward, treats the awareness of not-knowing as itself a structured cognitive achievement requiring conscious attention.
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    • 2.If knowledge requires actively apprehending a fact, then the disposition to seek knowledge presupposes some conscious registration of its current absence.
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    Consciousness & MindTruth & 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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    In the context of (T), Heytesbury discusses the casus where an agent sees a person who looks exactly like a king, but is not one. The agent can believe the man to be a king beyond any doubt and even believe himself to know that. But, by (T), he knows neither that the man is a king (because that is not true), nor that the man is not a king (because he does not believe that) ([RSS] 1494: fol. 13vb [1988b: 447]). Even though Heytesbury does not explicitly say so, it seems natural to assume that thi
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