Home›Open Questions›What Satisfies the Missing Condition for Knowledge?Open QuestionsWhat Satisfies the Missing Condition for Knowledge?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextPhilosophy Atlas. "What Satisfies the Missing Condition for Knowledge?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://philosophy.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/what-satisfies-the-missing-condition-for-knowledge.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextPhilosophy Atlas. (n.d.). What Satisfies the Missing Condition for Knowledge?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://philosophy.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/what-satisfies-the-missing-condition-for-knowledgeCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{philosophyatlas-what-satisfies-the-missing-condition-for, author = {Philosophy Atlas}, title = {What Satisfies the Missing Condition for Knowledge?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://philosophy.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/what-satisfies-the-missing-condition-for-knowledge}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionEdmund Gettier's 1963 counterexamples showed that justified true belief, the classical tripartite analysis inherited from Plato's Theaetetus, is not sufficient for knowledge: there are cases of justified true belief that still fall short of knowing. Epistemologists have proposed many candidate fourth conditions since, but the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's own survey concludes that despite considerable attention, particularly in the late twentieth century, no analysis has been widely accepted.What would resolve this A precise, counterexample-resistant fourth condition, or a replacement analysis of knowledge altogether, that a broad consensus of epistemologists converges on rather than one that continues to generate further counterexamples.OpenEpistemologyThe Analysis of Knowledge (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)Cross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnEpistemology, Branches of Philosophy Well-attested Source The Analysis of Knowledge (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)SourcesThe Analysis of Knowledge (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophySection 7, Is Knowledge Analyzable?View 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