komponisto comments on Mainstream Epistemology for LessWrong, Part 1: Feldman on Evidentialism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: komponisto 16 November 2013 10:11:50PM 2 points [-]

1) Have you read Gettier's paper "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?"? I recommended it; it seems to create problems for the JTB analysis of knowledge even assuming a Bayesian understanding of "justified."

As I argued in this comment from 2011, the intuitive reaction to the Gettier scenario is based on a probability-theoretic mistake analogous to the conjunction fallacy (you might call it the "disjunction fallacy").