The Case For Brevity
Three times entire disciplines were upended in a few pages
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3 min readMar 25, 2021
The Gettier Objection
What is knowledge? It took Edmund Gettier three pages to overturn the traditional, centuries-old answer to this question. His 1963 paper provided two counterexamples to the otherwise attractive analysis of knowledge as Justified True Belief (JTB), introducing what are…