Abstract
In their epistemological works some medieval philosophers presented Gettier-type examples as objections to the commonly accepted characterization of knowledge as firmly held true belief, and proposed additional epistemic conditions to meet the objections, or analyzed knowledge in a way that is immune to the Gettier-type objections. It is shown that some conditions of knowledge proposed in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century epistemology independently of the Gettier Problem or as solutions to it can be regarded as variants of the conditions proposed by medieval authors.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Explaining Knowledge |
Subtitle of host publication | New Essays on the Gettier Problem |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 135-151 |
Number of pages | 17 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780198724551 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780198724568 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 2017 |
Keywords
- Epistemology
- Extendability
- Forward-looking condition
- Gettier-type example
- Medieval philosophy
- Perfect knowledge
- Strong sense of knowledge
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Arts and Humanities(all)