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Information E

Such a thought is mistaken, though, even if we regard contextualism as not directly a principle of knowing. For we now have already met two approaches which are instantly about understanding (animal/reflective information, and knowledge-gradualism) while additionally accepting the possibility of there being completely different grades of fallible figuring out. Maybe we can distinguish between a kind of data which involves some sort of reliability (see section 5.a above), and one which adds to that reliability an appropriately conscious reflectiveness about that reliability. Sosa describes this as a distinction between animal data and reflective information; and he regards the latter as a better means of figuring out a reality. What matters for the current dialogue is that you can know a selected truth, such as that you are tired, in both an animal way or a reflective means. If so, may that perception actually be unjustified, irrespective of that the group’s members take it to be ju