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Consider a standard Gettier case. A cutout of a sheep in a field hides a sheep behind it. At that distance, the cutout looks just like a she...

I can competently use a word without knowing what the word means. Just imagine some Gettier case, such as that my English teacher tried to t...

Suppose you know the following facts. In County X, about 40% of sheep wear sheep costumes. There is also the occasional trickster who puts a...

A disjunctive Gettier case looks like this. You have a justified belief in p , you have no reason to believe q , and you justifiedly believe...

There are books of weird mathematical things (e.g., functions with strange properties) to draw on for the sake of generating counterexamples...

I am going to give some cases that support this thesis. If you can know that you won’t win the lottery, then in typical Gettier cases you ...

I am one of those philosophers who think that it is correct to say that I know I won’t win the lottery—assuming of course I won’t. Here is ...

People intuitively know that stealing is wrong. Maybe stealing is wrong because it violates the social institution of property which is reas...

In an earlier post , I had argued that there is something generally fishy about conjunctive characterizations of non-stipulative ...

Sometimes we try to analyze a concept as a conjunction of two or more concepts. Thus, we might say that x knows p provided p is t...