Gettier CaseBy Niv Elbaz and Girard Soriano

What is a Gettier Case First presented in three page paper in 1963 by Edmund

Gettier

A Gettier case is a thought experiment that repudiates

a definition of knowledge as justified true belief (JTB)

Meaning that in a certain scenario a person who

believes in something and justifies it to be true may not

always call it Knowledge

Examples Of Gettier Case Some very common examples are creations that

people have made going from the extent of Facebook

to the creation of the sandwich

These creations were accidents while the person who

made theses creations had JTB he or she did not have

knowledge since the creation was an accident.

Examples Continued Another form of a Gettier case is seeing something that

is there and then logically calculating what it may be and by accident getting it right.

An example of this would be “The Cow in the Field” experiment where the farmer looks for his cow on his field. He sees a black and white creature on the field and theorizes that it is his cow. Coincidently he was correct but it was based off luck no true justification. So therefore the farmer cant truly claim to know his cow is on the field since he didn't’t justify it.