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Virtue Epistemology and the Role of Intellectual Character

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Virtue epistemology offers a solution to the Gettier problem: a belief is knowledge only if it is true because of the knower's intellectual virtues, such as careful reasoning, open-mindedness, or intellectual humility—not by luck.

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What if your own character—more than your sensory data or reasoning—determines whether you truly know something? Virtue epistemology says that the key to knowledge might be your intellectual virtues.