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Knowledge A Very Short Introduction

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What this book knows

Knowledge is not a simple justified true belief but a contested, socially embedded achievement shaped by evidence, reliability, and shifting standards.

Sex: Absent
Work: Absent
Learning: Primary
Religion: Present

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self-and-identity

Descartes confessed he had swallowed 'a large number of falsehoods' as a child and resolved to demolish everything and start again from the foundations.
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Our intuitions about particular cases — like the broken-clock example — are the raw instinctive capital we bring to the systematic study of knowledge.
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mind-and-cognition

Human beings alone can track false beliefs in others — no other animal grasps that a mind can hold something untrue.
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Egocentrism makes it hard to override our own perspective when evaluating others who know less — a bias pronounced even in young children.
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faith-and-doubt

The King of Siam rationally refused to believe water could turn solid — background experience shapes what testimony we are entitled to trust.
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Scepticism is a good thing — healthy critical double-checking — carried dangerously too far, according to Williamson.
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