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Edmund Gettier

1963

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If truth, belief, and reasonable justification are all present but their connection is accidental, is it knowledge?

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Gettier — When truth and justification meet by luck

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If truth, belief, and reasonable justification are all present but their connection is accidental, is it knowledge?

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    Gettier's paper appeared in June 1963 in Analysis, volume 23, issue 6, pages 121–123.

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    • Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?

      Edmund L. Gettier · 1963 · Analysis 23(6), 121–123

      Locator: Article metadata, Analysis 23(6), 121–123

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    The paper argues that a case may satisfy truth, belief, and justification while still not intuitively amounting to knowledge.

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    • Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?

      Edmund L. Gettier · 1963 · Analysis 23(6), 121–123

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    • The Analysis of Knowledge

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: Section 3

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    In Case I, Smith's evidence points to Jones, but the hiring and the coins that make the proposition true happen by chance to concern Smith.

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    • Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?

      Edmund L. Gettier · 1963 · Analysis 23(6), 121–123

      Locator: Case I, page 122

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    The short paper was followed by extensive debate in contemporary epistemology over supplementing justified true belief or finding a different analysis.

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    • The Analysis of Knowledge

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: Sections 3–8

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  1. June 1963

    Gettier's short paper appears in Analysis.

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