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Re:A three-page paper that shook philosophy, with lessons fo... by burlesona on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @10:50AM (#18911981)
You make a good point, but I think the framing of “justified true belief” may still be useful for the reason you illustrated. It gives a developer a nice way to sanity check their instinct. Instead of “I’m sure my code broke this,” asking “is this belief justified” may help them pause and consider “well I did rebase so I can’t really be sure, I need to eliminate what’s in the diff first.”
Re:A three-page paper that shook philosophy, with lessons fo... by skywhopper on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @11:11AM (#18912168)
Right... but then how do the Gettier exceptions fit into that not-so-original insight?
Re:A three-page paper that shook philosophy, with lessons fo... by chasedehan on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @11:17AM (#18912226)
Example would be the above comment about "There is a cow in that field". It would be to then ask, did I see the cow move, eat, or do anything else that you would expect a cow to do - rather than just seeing the silhouette?

I generally think the point is that you oftentimes have beliefs about why something broke and that it is important to check your beliefs.