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    It is not the case that The value of intellectual activities explains the value of knowledge.

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    • 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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