Philosophy / Unit 2 Philosophy 0048 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Repairing the Analysis
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The idea
Post-Gettier repairs add a fourth condition to justified true belief—for example, that the belief depend on no false assumption and no luck.
In practice
A sheep-shaped rock convinces you a sheep is in the field—and one is, hidden behind a rise. No-false-assumption clauses block such cases.
Where people slip
Decades of repairs met decades of new counterexamples; some concluded knowledge resists analysis.
Your place on the trail
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