id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4314 Gettier problem - Wikipedia .html text/html 6720 547 65 Attributed to American philosopher Edmund Gettier, Gettier-type counterexamples (called "Gettier-cases") challenge the long-held justified true belief (JTB) account of knowledge. In his 1963 three-page paper titled "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?",[1] Gettier attempts to illustrate by means of two counterexamples that there are cases where individuals can have a justified, true belief regarding a claim but still fail to know it because the reasons for the belief, while justified, turn out to be false. Gettier's paper used counterexamples (see also thought experiment) to argue that there are cases of beliefs that are both true and justified—therefore satisfying all three conditions for knowledge on the JTB account—but that do not appear to be genuine cases of knowledge. Linda Zagzebski shows that any analysis of knowledge in terms of true belief and some other element of justification that is independent from truth, will be liable to Gettier cases.[10] She offers a formula for generating Gettier cases: ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4314.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4314.txt