The tripartite view

Question 1

What is the definition of knowledge?

Answer 1

Necessary and sufficient conditions, which are justified, true, belief

Question 2

Basic things that make knowledge

Answer 2

JTB
Necessary and sufficient condition
Not just TB

Question 3

What is true belief?

Answer 3

Something that may or may not be justified, it has to be justified to be knowledge

Question 4

How can beliefs be mistaken?

Answer 4

No one can know what is false

Belief is widespread and roughly accurate, it is knowledge

Question 5

What did Kuhn believe about knowledge?

Answer 5

Scientific knowledge is justified belief

Science doesn’t get closer to the truth

Question 6

Objection to Kuhn’s belief

Answer 6

Someone may know something without consciously believing in it.
This is unconscious justified true belief
He doesn’t establish his claim

Question 7

Williamson’s opinion on knowledge

Answer 7

Knowledge isn’t same mental state as belief
Knowledge is factive, belief isn’t
Isn’t possible to analyse knowledge in terms of belief

Question 8

What did Gettier believe?

Answer 8

Justified true belief with knowledge, so JTB doesn’t make knowledge

Question 9

What is a Gettier case?

Answer 9

What makes a person’s belief true is not related to what justifies it