Arnold CUSMARIU

IS JTB KNOWLEDGE HOPELESS? (pages 261-270)

Arnold CUSMARIU ABSTRACT: An argument structure that covers both cases Gettier described in his 1963 paper reinforces the conclusion of my 2012 Logos & Episteme article that the justified true belief (JTB) conception of knowledge is inconsistent. The stronger argument makes possible identification of fundamental flaws in the standard approach of adding a fourth condition to JTB, so that a …

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SEMANTIC EPISTEMOLOGY REDUX: PROOF AND VALIDITY IN QUANTUM MECHANICS (pages 287-303)

Arnold CUSMARIU ABSTRACT: Definitions I presented in a previous article as part of a semantic approach in epistemology assumed that the concept of derivability from standard logic held across all mathematical and scientific disciplines. The present article argues that this assumption is not true for quantum mechanics (QM) by showing that concepts of validity applicable to proofs in mathematics and in …

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