Download A Macat Analysis of Edmund Gettier's Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? AudioBook Free
Just how do we know very well what knowledge is? In his 1963 article, "Is Justified True Perception Knowledge?", American philosopher Edmund Gettier radically challenges the accepted meaning of knowledge itself. Greek philosopher Plato, discussing knowledge more than 2,000 years ago, described it as "justified true idea". To be looked at knowledge, a proposition had to fulfill three requirements: A) It is true.
B) You believe it to be true.
C) You are justified in believing it is true. But in two ingenious instances, Gettier demonstrates that somebody's justified idea can be true because of only luck. This, he argues, means that justified true idea is definitely not knowledge. In just 930 words, Gettier pushes a total rethink of a key philosophical theory. Gettier's article will fascinate anyone enthusiastic about the viewpoint of knowledge, and the question it addresses is now known as the Gettier Problem. Having been cited a large number of times within the last 50 years, his newspaper now boasts the best citation-per-word ratio of any philosophical work ever published.
