Reading Questions
Edmund L. Gettier - Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?

1. According to someone like Chisholm or Ayer, what does it mean for the conditions (i), (ii), and (iii) of (a) to be met?
2. What does Gettier think the point of his examples that meet the three conditions of (a) will be?
3. Why does Gettier think that Smith does not know proposition (e) The man who will get the job has ten coins in his pocket.?
4. Why do you think Gettier believes that Smith does not know proposition (h) Either Jones owns a Ford, or Brown is in Barcelona.?