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  1. Mar 2026
    1. The epistemological question is subtly different. It does not imagine a fallibly justified belief — before asking, without making any actual or hypothetical commitment as to the belief’s truth, whether the belief is knowledge. Rather, the epistemologist’s question considers the conceptual combination of the belief plus the justification for it plus the belief’s being true — which is to say, the whole package that, in this case, is deemed by the Justified-True-Belief

      Epistemology is the study of knowledge including what are the necessary and sufficient conditions for it, it is not the pursuit of knowledge, itself. That is a slightly different area of inquiry.