Responses to the tripartite view

Question 1

What if no false lemmas

Answer 1

Amendment to tripartite definition of knowledge

Question 2

What does not false lemmas add?

Answer 2

A 4th condition

Don’t infer your belief from anything false

Question 3

Counterexample to no false lemmas

Answer 3

Barn county
JTB without a false inference
Resulting belief still isn’t knowledge

Question 4

What is infallibilism?

Answer 4

To be knowledge a belief must be certain
Justification requires certainty
Doubt beliefs to find out what is true
Leads to scepticism

Question 5

What is reliabilism?

Answer 5

Knowledge is true belief
Caused by a reliable process
Use this process to discriminate between relevant possibilities

Question 6

What did Nozick argue?

Answer 6

Knowledge tracks the truth

Question 7

What do both versions of reliablisim share?

Answer 7

Deny principle of closure, this is counter intuitive, but rejects scepticism

Question 8

What is the principle of closure?

Answer 8

I know whatever I deduce from what I know

Question 9

How does reliabilist virtue epistemology analyse knowledge?

Answer 9

True belief that is acquired as a result of a person exercising their intellectual virtues

Question 10

What does Soso call the reliabilist virtue epistemology analysis?

Answer 10

Apt belief

Question 11

Objection to reliabilist virtue epistemology

Answer 11

Doesn’t solve Gettier cases, but it tries to amend the theory to succeed