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    TV-S is false. — Carmelics
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    TV-S is false.

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    • 1.Knowledge requires not just true belief but a proper epistemic relationship between the believer's cognitive process and the truth-maker, as Alvin Goldman's reliabilism establishes.
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    • 2.A compulsive truster's belief-forming process is unreliable across nearby possible worlds where testimony is false, failing Goldman's counterfactual sensitivity condition.
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    • 3.Therefore, Quinn's true testimonial belief lacks the modal robustness required for knowledge, confirming that mere testimonial uptake (TV-S) is insufficient for knowledge transmission.
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    • 1.Edward Craig's genealogical account of knowledge identifies the knower as a reliable informant, meaning knowledge attributions are partly constituted by the believer's fitness as a source.
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    • 2.Quinn's compulsive trust renders him an unreliable epistemic agent who cannot serve as a credible informant, disqualifying him from the social role knowledge attribution tracks.
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    • 3.Since TV-S implies testimony mechanically transfers knowledge regardless of the recipient's epistemic character, it conflicts with the social-functional conditions knowledge attributions actually serve.
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    • 1.Kevin knows that p.
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    • 2.Quinn does not know that p.
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    • 3.Quinn's compulsively trusting nature makes his attitude insensitive to counterevidence in a way that precludes his belief from amounting to knowledge.
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    Opponents argue that while Kevin knows that p, Quinn does not, i.e., because of his compulsively trusting nature, Quinn’s attitude is insensitive to counterevidence in a way that precludes his belief from being amounting to knowledge. Thus, TV-S is false. (This Compulsively Trusting case comes from Lackey 2008. See also Graham 2000b).
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