philosophy

Jan 31

Gettier Non-Problems

James Grimmelmann

What is knowledge? To know something is to correctly understand the world, so knowledge must involve the coming together of truth and belief. Unfortunately, a definition of knowledge as “true belief” doesn’t work, because truth and belief can coincide by coincidence. For example, suppose that I...

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Apr 28

Are you a one-boxer or two-boxer?

minming

Let me get straight to the point: You are presented with two boxes, Box A and Box B. Box A contains $1,000 Box B contains either $1,000,000 or nothing This is what we know about the game. The amount of money in Box B is determined by Omega (a supernatural being) who is “almost certainly”...

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