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Re:A three-page paper that shook philosophy, with lessons fo... by lamacase on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @10:55AM (#18912024)
By what definition? The "notion" of "justified true belief" WAS the definition of knowledge prior to these complications. Just saying "everything is subjective" is more tedious than making meaningful distinctions, in my subjective opinion
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Re:A three-page paper that shook philosophy, with lessons fo... by whytaka on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @12:17PM (#18912803)
I think GP means that the justification of JTB by definition is recursive and thus has no real foundation.

To call something 'true' is to know it is 'true'.

If we are bothering to debate whether knowledge is possible, JTB is unconvincing.

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