A topic within Epistemology, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.
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Edmund Gettier
Gives two cases where a belief is true, justified and yet clearly not knowledge, showing the classical tripartite analysis of knowledge is false as it stands.
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Proposes that a true belief counts as knowledge only when it is connected to the fact that makes it true by an appropriate causal chain, offered as a direct fix for the cases Gettier raised.
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