Questions tagged [gettier]
Gettier problems function as challenges to the philosophical tradition of defining knowledge of a proposition as justified true belief in that proposition. The problems are actual or possible situations in which someone has a belief that is both true and well supported by evidence, yet which — according to almost all epistemologists — fails to be knowledge.
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Does Gettier paradox exist when we use deductive reasoning?
Show that 1+1+1=3
1+1+1 = (1 + (1+1)) = (1+3) =3
The mistake in the inner bracket calculation is that I considered 1+1 to be equal 3, and that of the outer bracket is that is that I considered 1 plus ...
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Actual content of Gettier cases
I'd not rewrite here classical Gettier cases.
Each of cases hinges on a crucial fact: after obtaining "knowledge" from observable facts via disjunctive introduction or entailment, the ...
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Why don't we approach the problem of knowledge as "that what we do NOT ignore"? [closed]
There is a long tradition trying to approach knowledge as a true and justified belief (The Tripartite Analysis of Knowledge . Recently, Gettier(1963) just showed that we need more than those 3 ...
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Are there scholarly works on philosophy of language treatment of the Gettier problem?
I found two essays on a kind of response to the Gettier problem. One is a Philosophy Now article, and another is a blog post. On both sources, they argue that Smith's belief (on the original Gettier ...
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How is this a Gettier case?
A or B gets a job. You know A has a coin in his pocket. C tells you that A will get the job. You therefore have the jtb that the person who gets the job has a coin in his pocket. However, it turns out ...
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Gettier Cases seem absurd and unconvincing
Suppose that Smith and Jones have applied for a certain job. And suppose that Smith has strong evidence for the following conjunctive proposition: (d) Jones is the man who will get the job, and Jones ...
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Knowledge and epistemic intuition
Gettier famously argues against the traditional theory of knowledge that justified true belief may not always be knowledge. Basically, his examples can be summarized as whether we can have knowledge ...
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Why does Nozick rely on closest possible world in his tracking theory?
According to the truth-tracking theory of Nozick,
S knows that P iff
(1) P is True,
(2) S believes that P,
(3) If P were not True, S would not believe that P, and
(4) If P were True, S would believe ...
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Why are Gettier cases so challenging to JTB = K?
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I do not understand why the problem of Gettier cases has been so challenging to the theory that knowledge consists of justified true beliefs. Let's take an example from SEP, where you are ...
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Gettier counterexamples for Goldman
I was wondering if there are any Gettier-style counterexamples or deeper objections to either of Goldman's reliabilist (1979) or causal (1967) theories of knowledge?
Thanks in advance!
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do Gettier cases challenge JTB
My question is about quite basic epistemology but I am stumped.
To what extent do Gettier cases challenge the proposal that knowledge is justified true belief? Should we care?
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Has no epistemologist noticed the problem with "truth" before Gettier?
According to Wikipedia (indeed not the most trustworthy source, but the SEP article also portraits it this way) the classic belief-justification-truth method of defining knowledge has only been ...
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The Gettier problem
I've been looking for an explanation of the meaning of knowledge and I've come across this video on Youtube :
PHILOSOPHY Epistemology: Analyzing A
Knowledge #1 (The Gettier Problem)
[HD]
What I can't ...
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Can "Gettier problems" be solved by changing Justified, True Belief without introducing a fourth condition?
It seems to me Gettier problems challenge the Justified, True Belief account of knowledge.
As I see it, they can be solved by assuming that knowledge requires something else: a set of propositions Q ...
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The non-existence of Gettier problems in Indo-Tibetan epistemology
Reading the paper Gettier and Factivity in Indo‐Tibetan Epistemology the author claims at some point early in the paper that
There are two initial problems which make it difficult to compare ...
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