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The difference being what those beliefs are based upon.

I'd recommend a read through Plato's Socratic dialog Theaetetus. Then think through whether the progression of sensation, true belief, and justified true belief does or does not form a sequence of increasingly better ways to think about the world.

As for your last sentence, although I could say the same, I think you will agree that it would serve no purpose.




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