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    It is not the case that True belief is a minimally necessary condition for knowledge.

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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