*the gettier problem – in the field of ‘epistemology’ – is a ‘landmark philosophical problem’ with our ‘understanding’ of ‘knowledge’*
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(1927 – 2021)
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Attributed to American philosopher Edmund Gettier, Gettier-type counterexamples (called “Gettier-cases”) challenged the long-held justified true belief (or JTB) account of knowledge.
On the JTB account, knowledge is equivalent to justified true belief, and if all three conditions (justification, truth, and belief) are met of a given claim, then we have knowledge of that proposition.
In his three-page 1963 paper, titled Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?, Gettier showed, by means of two counterexamples, that there were cases where individuals had justified true belief of a claim, but still failed to know it.
Thus, Gettier showed that the JTB account was inadequate—it could not account for all of knowledge.
The JTB account was first credited to Plato, though Plato argued against this very account of knowledge in the Theaetetus (210a).
The term “Gettier problem”, or “Gettier case”, or even the adjective “Gettiered”, is sometimes used to describe any case in epistemology that purports to repudiate the JTB account.
Responses to Gettier’s paper have been numerous.
Some rejected Gettier’s examples, while others sought to adjust the JTB account to blunt the force of counterexamples
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(“gettier problems” have even found their way into ‘experiments’, where the ‘intuitive responses’ of people of varying ‘demo-graphics’ to ‘gettier cases’ have been studied)
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