What was Gettier's examples used to argue about "no false lemmas" - saying that you don't possess knowledge if you it was pure chance that you were right

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What was Gettier's main argument AGAINST the "Tripartite theory of knowledge"

Justification, Truth and Belief could all be achieved through luck - this does not mean it is knowledge.

A person only has knowledge if it's justifiable (have good reasons), true (no such thing as false knowledge) and they believe in it

Reliability is highly subjective and therefore debatable.

Other than maths and analytic truths, there are very few substantive propositions which we can know for sure

What was Plato's main argument for the "Tripartite theory of knowledge"

A person only has knowledge if it's justifiable (have good reasons), true (no such thing as false knowledge) and they believe in it

Justification, Truth and Belief could all be achieved through luck - this does not mean it is knowledge.

Reliability is highly subjective and therefore debatable.

Other than maths and analytic truths, there are very few substantive propositions which we can know for sure

The "fake barn" example (wrote by Goldman) says…

Just because you see a what you think is a barn, and you happen to be correct, doesn't make it knowledge

You know a barn is real or not because it has a perfect form

You can deduce knowledge of the barn through your senses

Henry is driving in the countryside and sees what looks exactly like a barn. However, he's unaware that many farmers construct fake barns. Though he was lucky and was correct

Goldman wrote about the "Fake Barn" example

Berkeley wrote about the "Fake Barn" example

Gettier wrote about the "Fake Barn" example

Locke wrote about the "Fake Barn" example

Hume's fork - divides knowledge which categories:

Relations of Ideas: and Matters of Facts

Realms of ideas and Deduction of ideas

Sources of Knowledge

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We are born knowing nothing, our mind is a blank slate ("Tabula Rasa") at birth

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Only things we can experience are true

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We are born knowing some things

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We aquire knowledge via reasoning

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If a tree falls but no one hears it, it doesn't make a sound. You have to experience it to be true

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Maths, Logic & Geometry truths can be worked out, no matter what our experiences/background

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Sources of Knowledge

We can use intuition and deduction to discover knowledge

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