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Suppose further, however, that justification adds value to a mere true belief.
Illumination is what allows us to go from mere true belief to knowledge.
In contrast, mere true belief, argues Plato, is apt to run away and be lost.
We will call the issue of why knowledge is more valuable than mere true belief, the Meno problem.
Zagzebski (2003) argues that an adequate account of knowledge must explain why knowledge is more valuable than mere true belief.
Williamson's view seems incapable of explaining why knowledge without a shelf life seems better than the corresponding mere true belief.
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Moreover, Kaplan can explain why we might ordinarily have the intuition that knowledge is of special epistemic value by noting that knowledge could very easily be confused with mere justified true belief.
If Parisians, or Venetians, tried to distinguish between mere tourists and true travellers and adopted visitors, they would never stop.
The family rose from mere prominence to true dynasty, with portraits hanging on official walls in Washington, Texas and Florida.
Just as a person's life is much more to them than a mere story, so true objectivity is all but impossible in narrative journalism.
But, as has been pointed out (e.g. Hyman 2010), mere beliefs, whether true or not, can be maintained as stubbornly as any piece of knowledge can.
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