Friday 20 June 2008

Edmund Gettier famously argued that justified true belief is not sufficient for knowledge. Do you think Gettier is correct? If so, whats missing?...

1) I
agree with his assessment. Even speaking from a religious standpoint, justified true belief is
supposed to lead to faith, which is the fervent belief in things hoped for but not seen. For
absolute knowledge, there needs to be observable proof. These are different ideas, though,
because faith and religion can be just as true without absolute, visible proof.


2) Gettier's argument is that true knowledge requires a definitive proof, and he
outlines several counter-examples to the idea of knowledge and...

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