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    Challenges→Pritchard's epistemic luck taxonomy distinguishes veritic luck from reflective luck; virtue reliabilism addresses the latter but structurally underdetermines the former.

    Virtues themselves appear to address both veritic and reflective luck simultaneously—a reliable faculty producing true belief eliminates both accidental truth and unjustified belief.

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    Key Terms

    Faculty(in philosophy of mind)
    A distinct mental ability or power, like reason, emotion, or desire—treated as a separate part of the mind.
    Reflective luck(as used in epistemology)
    The problem of having justified reasons to believe something, but those reasons themselves being based on luck or accident rather than solid thinking.
    True belief(Contrasted with knowledge in the Jones/Smith example)
    A belief that is true but lacks the justification required for knowledge
    Veritic luck(as used in epistemology)
    The problem of believing something true just by accident or coincidence, rather than through good reasoning.
    epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)

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    A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
    justified belief(Coherence theory of justification)
    A belief that is part of a coherent system of beliefs
    virtues(Core concept of virtue ethics)
    Excellent traits of character, such as kindness, honesty, sincerity, and justice, that virtue ethics uses to assess the ethical quality of actions and agents

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