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    The virtue-theoretic account of knowledge cannot fully explain the knowledge-luck incompatibility by appealing to virtue alone

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    • 1.Sosa's apt belief model requires belief to be accurate because competent, yet Gettier cases show competence and accuracy can coincide accidentally.
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    • 2.If a belief is 'apt' yet lucky in Zagzebski's sense—where removing the mistake still yields the same belief—virtue cannot be the explanatory ground.
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    • 3.The 'because' relation linking virtue to true belief requires modal robustness that virtue attributions alone, without anti-luck conditions, cannot supply.
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    • 1.Pritchard's epistemic luck taxonomy distinguishes veritic luck from reflective luck; virtue reliabilism addresses the latter but structurally underdetermines the former.
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    • 2.A belief can manifest genuine intellectual virtue—stable, reliable, exercised under normal conditions—while still being true only in the actual world among close possible worlds.
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    • 1.Luck and virtue are orthogonal dimensions of epistemic evaluation, not simply opposites
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    • 2.Knowledge must be due to virtue more than luck, rather than requiring the complete absence of luck
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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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    One benefit claimed for this basic approach is that it provides an intuitive account of why knowledge is inconsistent with luck of a certain sort. For instance, some begin with the intuitive thought that you don’t know something if it is “largely a matter of luck” that you believe it (Riggs 2007). But why does knowledge preclude luck in this way? In the first detailed attempt to answer this question, Wayne Riggs says that the opposition between knowledge and luck is best explained by the hypothe
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