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    True belief is a minimally necessary condition for knowle... — Carmelics
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    True belief is a minimally necessary condition for knowledge.

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    • 1.If one knows that something is the case, one must have some belief or judgment about it.
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    • 2.What one believes must truly be the case in order for one to know it.
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    • 3.If one has no opinion about a thing, or if one's opinion about it is false, then one does not know it.
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    • 1.Ryle's distinction between 'knowing how' and 'knowing that' identifies procedural knowledge that need not be propositional or belief-constituted.
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    • 2.A skilled pianist executing a complex passage knows how to play it without holding any occurrent or dispositional belief about the finger movements involved.
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    • 3.If genuine knowledge can exist without any corresponding belief, then belief cannot be a minimally necessary condition for knowledge as such.
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    • 1.Williamson's knowledge-first epistemology argues knowledge is the prime, unanalyzable state from which belief is derivative, not its precondition.
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    • 2.If belief is a by-product of knowing rather than its basis, then truth and belief are not independently necessary conditions that combine to constitute knowledge.
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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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    Premise (1) appears to follow directly from the nature of knowledge. If one knows that something is the case, then one must have some belief or judgment about it and what one believes must truly be the case. If one doesn’t have any opinion about it or if one’s opinion about it is not true, then one doesn’t know it. To say this much, of course, is not to say that true opinion is sufficient for knowledge, but that one’s judgment is true has seemed to many philosophers to be a minimally necessary c
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    What one believes must truly be the case in order for one to know it.
    Williamson's knowledge-first epistemology argues knowledge is the prime, unanaly...
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