Gettier problem
nounEtymology Attributed to American philosopher Edmund Gettier.
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Human sciences, Philosophy, Sciences 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.
- Related terms
- Gettier case, Gettiered, Gettierian, Gettier intuition