show inconsistency within the same published paper. So, to avoid any muddle over this, the following conventions will be adopted in this thesis: Proposition p Subject (Epistemic agent) s K Knows B Believes J Is justified G Gettier-proofing condition Corpus of beliefs C Field of knowledge F Sceptical hypothesis h ~ NOT . AND + OR Is an element of Universal quantification [For all …] Material conditional [If then → … …] Biconditional [If and only if, iff, just in case then...] ↔ … Subjunctive conditional [Were it to be the case that then it would be the case □→ … that…] Given that many of the key researchers in this area are American, I keep quotations from these in the original US English. The few Irish words that appear are not italicised, unlike those of Latin, Greek, French and German origin. Expressions and words that have become naturalised (such as maieutic, prima facie, pro tanto, qua and vignette) are generally not shown in italics. I follow the founder of the field, Ernest Sosa, in using the masculine pronoun ‘he’ when referring to the knower. In addition, I call the teacher ‘she’. Some Problems of Traditional Epistemology The tripartite definition of knowledge, which is the starting point of much contemporary epistemology, is, as we have seen, true The ‘justified belief’ (JTB).
show inconsistency within the same published paper. So, to avoid any muddle over this, the following conventions will be adopted in this thesis: p Proposition s Subject (Epistemic agent) K Knows B Believes J Is justified G Gettier-proofing condition C Corpus of beliefs F Field of knowledge h Sceptical hypothesis ~ NOT . AND + OR Is an element of Universal quantification [For all …] → Material conditional [If … then …] ↔ Biconditional [If and only if, iff, just in case … then...] □→ Subjunctive conditional [Were it to be the case that … then it would be the case that…] Given that many of the key researchers in this area are American, I keep quotations from these in the original US English. The few Irish words that appear are not italicised, unlike those of Latin, Greek, French and German origin. Expressions and words that have become naturalised (such as maieutic, prima facie, pro tanto, qua and vignette) are generally not shown in italics. I follow the founder of the field, Ernest Sosa, in using the masculine pronoun ‘he’ when referring to the knower. In addition, I call the teacher ‘she’. Some Problems of Traditional Epistemology The tripartite definition of knowledge, which is the starting point of much contemporary epistemology, is, as we have seen, ‘justified true belief’ (JTB). The
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