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Gettier's Original Cases
Examine the two counterexamples that broke the classical theory of knowledge.
“Each ==Gettier case== contains a belief which is true and well justified without, according to epistemologists as a whole, being knowledge. [...] In one case, Smith has strong evidence that Jones will get the job, and that Jones has ten coins in his pocket. Smith concludes: 'The man who will get the job has ten coins in his pocket.' But Smith gets the job, not Jones. and Smith too happens to have ten coins in his pocket The belief is true, the justification is impeccable, but the justification is tracking the wrong person entirely. The truth is reached by accident, not by Smith's epistemic method. — Edmund Gettier, 'Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?' (1963); reconstructed in IEP 'Gettier Problems'”