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What Counts as Knowing

Three conditions, a three-page paper that broke them, and what is left

Gettier · the regress · everybody who told you something · 4 chapters · 10 min read

Three conditions, a three-page paper that broke them, and what is left.

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The definition, and its collapse

  1. 01Justified True BeliefOn three conditions that looked complete for two thousand years.
  2. 02Three Pages That Broke ItOn three pages in a small journal, and what they took down.
  3. 03What Holds the Reasons UpOn the oldest problem in the theory of knowledge, which has three exits and no door.
  4. 04Almost Everything, Somebody Told YouOn the part of knowledge philosophy spent two thousand years not discussing.