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THE FAILURE OF BOONGALING’S DISPROOF OF THE JTB+S DEFINITION OF KNOWLEDGE (pages 481-485)

30 December 2025 Comments Off on THE FAILURE OF BOONGALING’S DISPROOF OF THE JTB+S DEFINITION OF KNOWLEDGE (pages 481-485)

Marcoen J.T.F. CABBOLET ABSTRACT: Recently, Boongaling argued in Logos & Episteme 16 (3), 351-355 (2025) that the JTB+S definition of knowledge, introduced as a solution to the Gettier problem in Logos & Episteme 15 (4), 385-387 (2024), neither solves the Gettier problem nor provides an acceptable account of knowledge. We show that Boongaling’s counterargument, while logically correct, fails by showing …

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THE JTB+S DEFINITION OF KNOWLEDGE: SOLVING GETTIER’S PROBLEM (pages 385-387)

23 December 2024 Comments Off on THE JTB+S DEFINITION OF KNOWLEDGE: SOLVING GETTIER’S PROBLEM (pages 385-387)

Marcoen J.T.F. CABBOLET ABSTRACT: The JTB definition of knowledge has been shown by Gettier to be incomplete: its three conditions are necessary for knowledge, but not sufficient. We argue that the JTB definition can be completed with a very simple fourth condition, namely that the justification for the belief in p must be sufficient to exclude ¬p. It is shown …

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