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Gettier problem
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Etymology
Attributed to American philosopher Edmund Gettier.
Noun
en 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.
Related terms
en Gettier case
en Gettiered
en Gettierian
en Gettier intuition
Translations
Finnish: fi Gettierin ongelma
German: de Gettier-Problem n
Japanese: ja ゲティア問題 げてぃあもんだい
Polish: pl problem Gettiera m
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