Gettier's Essay 'Is Justified True Knowledge'

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It seems that he is emphasizing that we will never “know.” What we do know is based off of our mental ability to see things consciously.

In Edmund Gettier’s analysis of ‘Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?’, he talks about the fundamental ideals that allow a fact or result to be believed and known. However, he does this on a basis with two cases that provide sufficient premises, yet they do not result in the condition to be a known fact. The first case involves two men, Smith and Jones, that are applying for the same position at a company. It goes on to say that Jones has ten coins in his pocket and the individual that has the coin in his pocket will get the job.

With this particular case, Gettier effectively challenges the relationship between the sufficient condition and the necessary conditions because Smith’s justified true beliefs are not jointly sufficient for him to know he is the man with 10 coins in his pocket who will get the job. In fact, even if Smith’s justified true belief turns out to be true; Jones actually gets the job, intuitively we are not convinced that his justified true beliefs is deemed as knowledge because in the case that he is correct, we intuitively regard his justified true belief as a lucky coincidence since he could have had a false justified true belief.

The external

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The argument was first put forward by G.E Moor in 'Proof Of An External World'. Although the argument seems simple at first, its strength makes itself apparent in the attempts to offer rebbutals. Although Moore has not succeeded in proving that we have knowledge of an external world, he has shown that believing such a thing over the sceptics alternate position is less questionable. First I will try to outline both the sceptical view and Moore's argument and then turn to some criticisms of Moore's argument, I will conclude with an appeal to a non-naive view of common sense.

In his 1963 article “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?”, Edmund Gettier pointed out the fault in the traditional definition of knowledge and presented two counterexamples. The problem created by the two counterexamples is called the Gettier problem. In detail, the Gettier problem is whether a true belief based on invalid reasons counts as knowledge. My own Gettier counterexample is as follows. One day, my dad and I went to Costco Gas Station and there were already a lot of cars waiting for gasoline filling. So we queued in the last. When we were the next one to use the pump, there were two cars using the pumps, with one in the front and the other following it. My dad then asked me, of the two cars in front of us, which one would leave first.

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Edmund Gettier’s argument that justified true belief is not a sufficient definition for knowledge is correct. There are many scenarios in which the conditions for justified true belief are met but cannot be said to qualify as knowledge; therefore justified true belief is not a sufficient definition for knowledge.

Simon Weru Tim Houk PIL: 271 14 April 2015 Gettier – is knowledge justified true belief In this paper, I will try to analyze whether knowledge is justified true believe. Gettier was questioning whether a piece of information that a person believe which happen to be true for a false reasoning can counts as knowledge. The knowledge in question here is proposition knowledge, an example of preposition knowledge is like saying you know your name; my name is Simon is a justified true belief. This a proposition that somebody feel is correct and for which someone belief with a convincing for accepting so and which is genuine.

Some people that the mind is bound to a person’s body while others argue that the mind extends past the body. Believers of the latter claim would be Andy Clark and David Chalmers. In 1998, Clark and Chalmers explain the mind’s location with “active externalism” in their “The Extended Mind” article. In this article, the authors present three main claims to prove their argument that they believe leads to the conclusion that minds extend beyond the body. Their conclusion relies on believing similar things should be treated the same, beliefs are cognitive, and Otto’s notebook reflects his mind.

The Gettier Problem is a widely acknowledged philosophical question, named in honour of Edmund Gettier who discovered it in 1963, which questions whether a piece of information that someone believes for invalid reasons, but by mere happenstance is correct, counts as knowledge. Before the Gettier paper was published, it was widely believed that the Tripartite Theory of Knowledge- which states that Justified True Belief equaled knowledge- was fact. This means that with three conditions, one could know something. Firstly, if you believe something, secondly, if you have justification for believing, and thirdly, that your belief is in fact true. If all three of these conditions were met, then this amounted to knowledge. However, with the publication of Gettier’s paper, “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?”, he attempted to prove, with the aid of a number of problems, that it was not sufficient to have only these three conditions in order for a belief to become knowledge.

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