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Ideas for 'The Intrinsic Quality of Experience', 'Euthydemus' and 'Two Problems for Essentialism'

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13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / a. Reliable knowledge

303	Say how many teeth the other has, then count them. If you are right, we will trust your other claims [Plato]
	Full Idea: If each of you says how many teeth the other has, and when they are counted we find you do know, we will believe your other claims as well.
	From: Plato (Euthydemus [c.379 BCE], 294c)
	A reaction: This is the clairvoyant problem for reliabilism, if truth is delivered for no apparent reason. Useful, but hardly knowledge. HOW did you know the number of teeth?