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At the other end of the spectrum, an upsetting instance of knowledge gaps in the last decade was the profound misunderstanding of complex financial products that contributed to the market collapse of 2007.
However, is Smith's belief an instance of knowledge?
But, since Jack's belief is the result of wishful thinking, it wouldn't be justified or an instance of knowledge.
If so, we would have to judge that his belief is apt and therefore qualifies as an instance of knowledge.
But since its truth is the result of luck, it is exceedingly plausible to judge that Henry's belief is not an instance of knowledge.
Now Mary's belief is true, but intuitively, it is no more an instance of knowledge than the false belief in the first step was.
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These are not themselves, however, instances of knowledge in the strict sense, but they provide the mind with the materials of knowledge.
The strongest theme running through the book is Taylor's critique of disengagement, instrumental reason, and atomism: that individual instances of knowledge, judgment, discourse, or action cannot be intelligible in abstraction from the outside world.
Are they instances of knowledge?
What we know, indeed what we know in the most important instances of knowledge, is universal, necessary, and infinite, as in the case of certain mathematical knowledge.
Unlike Ross after him, Reid seems to think that our beliefs about not only moral first principles but also particular cases can count as instances of knowledge.
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