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    It is not the case that To act in light of a fact that is a reason, an agent needs to know the relevant fact.

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    Reasons For

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    Reason for 1 of 2
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    • 1.Reliably formed true beliefs can guide action in ways that track the world even without satisfying the internal conditions constitutive of knowledge.
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    • 2.Gettier cases show that justified true belief fails to constitute knowledge, yet agents in such cases are plausibly guided by the relevant facts in their deliberation.
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    • 3.If Gettier agents can act in light of facts via justified true belief sans knowledge, the knowledge condition is too strong for fact-relative guidance.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Aristotle's account of akrasia shows agents can be causally responsive to practical facts through non-propositional, dispositional awareness below explicit knowledge.
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    • 2.If sub-doxastic or tacit sensitivity to a fact suffices to make that fact operative in an agent's practical reasoning, knowledge is not necessary for acting in its light.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.An agent may act on the basis of a belief merely by treating what she believes as a reason for acting.
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    • 2.If there is a fact in virtue of which her belief is true, she acts in light of that fact (is guided by it) only if she knows that fact.
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    • 3.If the agent does not know the fact, the relationship between her action and the fact is fortuitous, a matter of luck or coincidence.
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