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The Gettier problem
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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