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EpistemologyStructured Roundsopened by Elena · 20755d ago
Is knowledge justified true belief?
Gettier cases seem to break the classical definition. Is there any account of knowledge that survives them, or should we give up on defining knowledge altogether?
For32%
Knowledge can still be defined.
6 votes
Against68%
The classical definition is broken beyond repair.
13 votes
Arguments
2 totalRound 1
ForElena· 20755d ago
Gettier cases show justification must be truth-conducive and not rely on luck. Reliabilist and virtue-epistemology accounts repair the gap by requiring the belief to arise from a reliable process.
AgainstTheo· 20755d ago
Every repair invites a new counterexample — fake barns, sheep in the field. The project of a single necessary-and-sufficient definition may be the mistake. Knowledge is a cluster concept, not a clean essence.
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