Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? Essay Questions

1. Construct a Gettier counterexample of your own to the claim that justified true belief is knowledge. Explain why it is a counterexample.

2. Explain why Gettier’s case satisfies Ayer’s definition of knowledge (in the previous reading) and why it provides a counterexample to the definition.

3. Do you find Gettier’s case compelling? Why or why not?