Gettier problem

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Attributed to American philosopher Edmund Gettier.

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Gettier problem (plural Gettier problems)

  1. (philosophy) The epistemological problem that a description of knowledge as “justified true belief” is not adequate: there are counterexamples where a person has justified true belief of something and yet does not know it to be true.

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