What is a virtue epistemiologists criteria of having knowledge?
1. P is true. 2. James believes that P is true. 3. James' true belief in P is a result of James exercising his intellectual virtuous.
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What are intellectual virtues?
Intellectual virtues are traits that allow you to reliably form true beliefs. For example good memory, accurate vision and the ability to think rationally.
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What are the three A's that Sousa uses in his archery analogy and what do they mean?
Accurate - It hits the target. Adroit - The archer is skillful and shoots the arrow well. Apt - The arrow hits the target because its shot well.
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What element seperates the thoeries of reliablism and virtue epsitemology and why?
Aptness. Because the belief should be true as a consequence of the person exercising their intellectual virtuous.
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How does this theory relate to the Henry in barn county story?
The belief he has that "there is a barn" is not apt and therefore does not qualify as knowledge. It is accurate and adroit but he only reached the answer through luck and not using intellectual virtuous.
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What is one thing that this theory does not condone?
It does not allow children and animals to have knowledge, unlike reliablism.
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What are intellectual virtues?
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Intellectual virtues are traits that allow you to reliably form true beliefs. For example good memory, accurate vision and the ability to think rationally.
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What are the three A's that Sousa uses in his archery analogy and what do they mean?
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What element seperates the thoeries of reliablism and virtue epsitemology and why?
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How does this theory relate to the Henry in barn county story?
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