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Repairing the Analysis

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Post-Gettier repairs add a fourth condition to justified true belief—for example, that the belief depend on no false assumption and no luck.

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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.

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Decades of repairs met decades of new counterexamples; some concluded knowledge resists analysis.