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What this book knows

Knowledge is not a lone mental act but a structured, socially embedded, reliably-formed process that skepticism cannot simply dissolve.

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

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mind-and-cognition

Newborn human infants seem to show a preference for face shapes over scrambled stimuli—as early as a few minutes after they're born.
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Confabulation is a subpersonal process; the person isn't aware that he or she is doing anything other than recalling a past event.
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Nozick and Dretske reject the closure of knowledge under known entailment—questioning whether rejecting this premise is as outrageous as it might first appear.
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self-and-identity

Brain-based memories in which you imaginatively 'relive' a past experience seem to be more difficult to 'off load' onto the environment.
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education-and-formation

We accept ideas in large measure because they are popular in our social network rather than because they are 'good' or true.
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If you rely on sources with strong journalistic traditions emphasizing accuracy, then you can acquire knowledge on the basis of those sources.
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