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. The branch of philosophy that tries to answer the question "What, exactly, is knowledge?" is

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. Which kind of knowledge are the following examples instances of?
Lachlan knows that Ottawa is the capital of Canada.
Shanice knows that there is no greatest prime number.
Hyeon knows that John Quincy Adams was the sixth president of the United States.

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. Philosophers often describe the form of sentences of propositional knowledge as

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. Although one may believe that p, and p may be true, one may still not know that p. This situation is universally agreed to arise from

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. Which of the following is equivalent to "If S knows that p, then S believes that p, p is true, and S's belief is justified"?

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. Sometimes we have beliefs (Level-1) that are inferred and justified by other beliefs (Level-2), which are in turn inferred and justified by still other beliefs (Level-N), and so on. __________ was the first philosopher to ask where this sort of inference and justification stops.

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. Of the three possibilities as to where the chain of inference and justification of one belief by others may stop, Aristotle considered which of the following to be the only legitimate option?

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. Which possibility, regarding the chain of justification, is referred to as Foundationalism?

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. __________ was not a foundationalist.

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. Critics of foundationalism claim that talk of "self-justification" is

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. While foundationalists think that our justified beliefs are structured like a building, coherentists maintain that our justified beliefs are structured like a(n)

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. For coherentists, an individual belief, p, is justified

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. The "isolation objection" to coherentism claims that its account of epistemic justification is isolated from

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. For one version of reliabilism, the epistemic justification of beliefs depends on the

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. Invalid inference strategies may nonetheless be legitimate under which of the following approaches to epistemic justification?

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. Skepticism claims that the justification a person has for her belief

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. Edmund Gettier used what have come to be called "Gettier cases" to show that one can

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