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Full Idea
The concept of knowledge is seriously problematic in more than one way, and is best avoided as far as possible in sober epistemological discussion.
Gist of Idea
The concept of knowledge is so confused that it is best avoided
Source
Laurence Bonjour (A Version of Internalist Foundationalism [2003], 1.5)
Book Ref
Bonjour,L/Sosa,E: 'Epistemic Justification' [Blackwells 2003], p.21
A Reaction
Two sorts of states seem to be conflated: one where an animal has a true belief caused by an environmental event, and the other where a scholar pores over books and experiments to arrive at a hard-won truth. I say only the second is 'knowledge'.