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D. Pritchard treats the conception of intellectual virtues as a primary theoretical notion and concludes that truth is the fundamental epistemic good and the goal of the scientific research. We criticize his approach in terms of T. Williamson’s knowledge first epistemology, which, in our view, is more fundamental than the virtue epistemology. We argue that knowledge is the only fundamental epistemic good and the goal of the scientific research. In respect to philosophy of education, our analysis leads to the conclusion that in education, one should primarily focus on acquiring the basic Wittgensteinian «hinge propositions».