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Jennifer Nagel on Intuitions about Knoweldge

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Can You Banish False Judgments From Your Path to Knowledge?

The idea is that if you can banish false beliefs from your path to knowledge, then you'll golden. But domotra himself came up with another type of example to show that you can reach a judgment without relying on any false judgment along the way. So what was that example? Ok, involves somebody who's making a judgment perceptually, instead of thinking on the basis of a signal, like a cloud of smoke, that something else is true,. There's a fire burning over there. I somebody who's just making a single judgment all at once. That's right. And when he sees something that looks like smoke... He wants it really to be smoke.That's right.

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