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The Notebook Metaphor

So many students reach for the 'justified, true, belief' definition for knowledge in ToK. They are not wrong of course, there are many examples of knowledge that is belief-like. But the risk is that we take all knowledge to be like this which is surely not the case (think of playing the piano for example). There is also the problem that the idea of belief is itself complex and philosophically contestable, perhaps...

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