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Gettiers in software engineering (2019)

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jayd16 ◴[14 Oct 24 21:11 UTC] No.41842070[source]▶
Hmm, are there better cases that disprove JTB? Couldn't one argue that the reliance on a view that can't tell papermache from a cow is simply not a justified belief?

Is the crux of the argument that justification is an arbitrary line and ultimately insufficient?

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1. abeppu ◴[14 Oct 24 21:35 UTC] No.41842286[source]▶
I like the example of seeing a clock as you walk past. It says it's 2:30. You believe that the time is 2:30. That seems like a perfectly reasonable level of justification -- you looked at a clock and read the time. If unbeknownst to you, that clock is broken and stuck at 2:30, but you also just happened to walk by and read it at 2:30, then do you "know" that it's 2:30?

I think a case can't so much "disprove" JTB, so much as illustrate that adopting a definition of knowledge is more complex than you might naively believe.