Lunes, Oktubre 17, 2011

The Gettier Problem: What Is Knowledge?

The Gettier Problem: What Is Knowledge?


How do we know what we know? This article explores the classic philosophical definition of knowledge as justified fair belief, and then introduces the challenge the Gettier problems pose for that definition. The logic behind unraveling the Gettier difficulty mimics the logic used in major fields of intellectual pursuit, so that the at times whimisical situations in Gettier problems give us insight into the larger topic of how we know what we know.
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