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+title: The Gettier problem
+kind: problem
+status: open
+year: 1963
+authors: Edmund Gettier, in three pages
+statement: Is knowledge justified true belief, and if not, what is missing?
+space: knowledge
+---
 
+Gettier gave cases where someone has a justified true belief by luck, and plainly does not know. Sixty years of proposed fourth conditions have each met counterexamples. It is one of the most-cited short papers in philosophy.
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+Posed 1963, Edmund Gettier, in three pages.
+ 
+## Sources
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+- [Wikipedia: Gettier problem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettier_problem)
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+[[Space:knowledge|Knowledge]] · [[Continent:philosophy|Philosophy]]

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Gettier gave cases where someone has a justified true belief by luck, and plainly does not know. Sixty years of proposed fourth conditions have each met counterexamples. It is one of the most-cited short papers in philosophy.

Posed 1963, Edmund Gettier, in three pages.

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Knowledge · Philosophy