Home›Open Questions›What must be added to, or substituted for, justified true belief for a definition of knowledge that survives Gettier-style counterexamples?Open QuestionsWhat must be added to, or substituted for, justified true belief for a definition of knowledge that survives Gettier-style counterexamples?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextPhilosophy Atlas. "What must be added to, or substituted for, justified true belief for a definition of knowledge that survives Gettier-style counterexamples?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://philosophy.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/the-gettier-problem.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextPhilosophy Atlas. (n.d.). What must be added to, or substituted for, justified true belief for a definition of knowledge that survives Gettier-style counterexamples?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://philosophy.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/the-gettier-problemCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{philosophyatlas-what-must-be-added-to-or-substituted-for, author = {Philosophy Atlas}, title = {What must be added to, or substituted for, justified true belief for a definition of knowledge that survives Gettier-style counterexamples?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://philosophy.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/the-gettier-problem}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionSince Edmund Gettier's 1963 paper, proposed fourth conditions (a no-false-lemmas clause, causal theories, reliabilism, safety and sensitivity conditions, virtue epistemology) have each met their own counterexamples, and no replacement analysis commands consensus.What would resolve this An analysis of knowledge that survives every known Gettier-style case without ruling out clear cases of ordinary knowledge would resolve it; some epistemologists instead argue the project of analyzing knowledge into more basic conditions should be abandoned.OpenEpistemologyStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyCross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnEpistemology, Branches of Philosophy Well-attested Source Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophytier 1SourcesStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophytier 1Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and Informations.v. The Analysis of KnowledgeView the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year