An Appraisal Of Edmund Gettier’s Critique Of Knowledge As “justified True Belief

”ABSTRACTThis work is an appraisal based on Edmund Gettier’s problem with the traditional account of knowledge which states that the basic conditions of knowledge is justification, truth and belief (JTB). This definition of knowledge is credited to Plato in his Theatetus. In 1963, Gettier arose to pose scenarios that challenge the tripartite conditions of knowledge, presumably proving that the conditions could amount to sheer luck and not true and certain knowledge.Gettier’s examples led to various proposals on what knowledge should entail, which implies that it is either the case that the JTB…