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    It is not the case that The virtue-theoretic account of knowledge cannot fully explain the knowledge-luck incompatibility by appealing to virtue alone

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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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    • 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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