Question

A theory that understood this concept using causal chains was later challenged with “fake barn” cases introduced by the reliabilist thinker Alvin Goldman. Four conditions need to be met in the truth-tracking theory of this concept proposed by Robert Nozick. A three-page 1963 paper challenges a definition of this concept with a case where Smith thinks Jones will get (-5[1])a job and also has ten coins in his pocket. That case, developed by Edmund Gettier, challenges Plato’s definition of this concept in the Theaetetus as “justified true belief.” This concept is studied in epistemology. For 10 points, skeptics doubt the existence of what concept that Francis Bacon claimed “is power”? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: knowledge [accept word forms like knowing; prompt on justified true belief until mentioned; reject “belief” or word forms]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Tai BelkeUBC AUW Wrath58-5
Sonya BatesUW WrathUBC A11010

Summary

2024 ACF Fall at CornellfallY10100%0%50%93.30
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio StatefallY8100%0%38%84.88
2024 ACF Fall at WashingtonfallY1100%0%100%110.00
2024 ACF Fall at GeorgiafallY12100%0%25%93.25
2024 ACF Fall at North CarolinafallY9100%0%33%86.33
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont CollegesfallY5100%0%0%70.20
2024 ACF Fall at RutgersfallY8100%0%25%94.25
2024 ACF Fall at IllinoisfallY9100%0%22%72.33