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    The value of intellectual activities explains the value of knowledge.

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    • 1.Intellectual activities are intrinsically good.
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    • 2.Knowledge derives its value from being the product or expression of intellectual activities.
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    • 3.Knowledge has no intrinsic value independent of the intellectual activities that produce it.
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    • 1.Knowledge has propositional content that can be true or false independently of any psychological activity producing it.
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    • 2.The truth-value of a proposition is not altered by the intellectual vigor or virtue of the cognitive process that grasped it.
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    • 3.Therefore, what makes knowledge valuable—its accurate representation of reality—is logically independent of the activities that yield it.
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    • 1.Plato's Meno establishes that knowledge differs from true belief not merely by causal origin but by justificatory stability and connection to reality.
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    • 2.If intellectual activity alone explained knowledge's value, a rigorous but systematically deceived reasoner would possess equally valuable 'knowledge'.
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    • 3.Ross conflates the epistemic value of the product with the moral or perfectionist value of the activity, committing a genetic fallacy.
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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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    This reply might cause Ross problems. If he says knowledge is not intrinsically valuable but intellectual activities are, he cannot say an activity of the mind is better when it issues in knowledge (FE 270; Shaver 2011, 134n34). Perhaps Ross will have to say intellectual activities leading to knowledge are better, not because knowledge is itself good, but because of its instrumental properties, e.g., knowledge might lead us to being most effective at promoting justice or virtue or pleasure. A fo
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