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Principles and patterns of Social Knowledge Applications
Welcome to the Social Knowledge Applications (or SKAs, for short) Web site. The aim of this site is to contribute to the understanding of existing social knowledge applications and to the design of novel applications. If you are unfamiliar with the concept of Social Knowledge Application, you might wish to start from the Overview .
A Gettier problem is any one of a category of thought experiments in contemporary epistemology that seem to repudiate a definition of knowledge as justified true belief (JTB). The category of problem owes its name to a three-page paper published in 1963, by Edmund Gettier , called "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?". In it, Gettier proposed two scenarios where the three criteria (justification, truth, and belief) seemed to be met, but where the majority of readers would not have felt that the result was knowledge due to the element of luck involved. The responses to Gettier's paper have been numerous.
Gettier problem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One salient feature of the Nogot/Haveit Gettier case is that the reasoning that leads you to the belief that someone owns a Ford goes through a false step, namely the step where you believe that Nogot owns a Ford. So a possible solution to the Gettier Problem might be this: knowledge is justified true belief--where the reasoning your belief is based on doesn't proceed through any false steps. Philosophers initially thought this was a promising solution. But unfortunately, Rich Feldman described Gettier-like cases where your reasoning doesn't proceed through any false steps, but intuitively you still don't count as knowing. So the present solution doesn't get to the root of the problem. Feldman's case works like this: