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The Gettier Problem No Longer a Problem

Lukasz Lozanski claims to know why Edmund Gettier was unjustified.

In 1963, Edmund Gettier challenged the whole notion of what constitutes knowledge. Until he published a short paper that year called ‘Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?’, it was widely accepted that knowledge was justified true belief. In other words, it was thought that if you believe something, and you have justification for believing it, and your belief is in fact true, then we can say that you know that thing. Using two examples, Gettier tried to show that it isn’t enough for these three conditions to be met. This problem has baffled philosophers ever since.

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