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    The Problems of Justified True Belief What is knowledge‚ and is anyone in a position to give an account of it? Certainly people do have knowledge‚ given the vast amounts that fill up our libraries; or what people refer to as common knowledge- what a person believes and understands based on their experiences; or what a professional learns through the ongoing practices within their field. These are personal accounts of types of knowledge that people may be in a position to put forth; however‚

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    The justified true belief theory of knowledge is an idea that if you have evidence to justify your belief then your justification makes that belief true. Your evidence holds true because of your previous experiences or your five senses thus making your idea true when you can rule out other alternative evidence. This theory is broken down into three necessary conditions: truth‚ belief and justification. Truth is the condition where it accurately represents the world; belief is when you believe something

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    “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?” (The Gettier Problem) Background Epistemology: A theory of _____________ What do we mean when we claim to know something? What kinds of conditions must be satisfied in order for a claim to become knowledge? Note: we are interested in __________________ knowledge here (S knows that p)‚ not knowledge of how to do things (e.g.‚ knowing how to ride a bike) The tripartite theory of knowledge – knowledge as justified true belief (JTB) The truth condition We

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    Belief alone is not enough to say that we have knowledge of what we believe‚ if we wish to say that we have knowledge of a belief it must be termed as justified belief for us to believe that it is a true belief. For a belief to be justified it must follow a certain standard of principles . Believing and knowing are two different things‚ belief is not a true indication of the truth and is not sufficient for knowledge if there is no justification. According to Roderick Chisholm’s attempt at revising

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    definition of knowledge is defined as awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation‚ but the work of Edmund L. Gettier discusses the idea of knowledge being an unobtainable concept. In Gettier’s article aptly titled “Is Justified true belief knowledge”‚ he talks about justification through correspondence truth and experience. Gettier attacks the process of justification with the use of logical proofs demonstrating the law of non-contradiction which states that it is impossible

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    The Gettier problem is a philosophical question about whether a piece of information that happens to be true but that someone believes for invalid reasons‚ such as a faulty premise‚ counts as knowledge. It is named after American philosopher Edmund Gettier‚ who wrote about the problem in a three-page paper published in 1963‚ called "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?". The paper refers to the concept of knowledge as justified true belief‚ credited to Plato‚ though Plato argued against this very

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    “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?” explains the concerns he has with the way we have formed our conditions for knowing something to be true. Many philosophers had attempted to explain the necessary conditions for someone to know a given proposition to be true‚ which led to Chisholm and Ayer constructing the necessary and sufficient conditions for a justified true belief‚ knowledge. These attempts were stated in the following form: (a) S knows that P is true‚ if and only if‚ (i) P is true‚ (ii)

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    analysis of knowledge says to know that P. the following requirements must be satisfied: (1) You believe that P‚ (2) You have justification for P and (3) that P is true. This definition of knowledge was thought to have satisfied many philosophers for centuries after Plato‚ this was until philosopher Edmund Gettier wrote ‘Is justified true belief knowledge?’. In this short paper he argues that justification and truth is necessary for knowledge but not sufficient thus concluding that we need something more

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    Edmund Gettier challenged the classical analysis of knowledge as justified true belief‚ demonstrating two cases where a true and justified belief is held‚ but not necessarily knowledge - Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? (1963). Showing that justification is insufficient for demarcating mere true beliefs from knowledge as belief and truth can correlate by luck. In what follows‚ section-one will outline the classical analysis of knowledge and Gettier’s challenge to it‚ focusing on Gettier’s first

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    Socrates and Meno have a discussion on virtue and they encounter a problem. If virtue is teachable‚ it must be knowledge. However‚ since there are no teachers and students of virtue‚ virtue must not be taught. So they think that virtue is not knowledge. And then they start the discussion on what is true belief and knowledge. In this essay‚ I would evaluate Socrates’s explanation on why knowledge is better than mere true belief and the reasons that I agree with Socrates’s proposition. Socrates’s

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