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Gettier provides several examples of beliefs that are both true and justified, but that we should not intuitively call knowledge.
" Because Gettier's criticism of the Justified True Belief model is systemic, a cottage industry has sprung up around imagining increasingly fantastical counterexamples.
For example, I am watching the men's Wimbledon Final and John McEnroe is playing Jimmy Connors, it is match point, and McEnroe wins.
Unbeknownst to me, however, the BBC were experiencing a broadcasting fault and so had stuck in a tape of last year's final, when McEnroe also beat Connors.
So my belief that McEnroe beat Connors to become this year's Wimbledon champion is true, and I had good reason to believe so ( my belief was justified )— and yet, there is a sense in which I could not really have claimed to ' know ' that McEnroe had beaten Connors because I was only accidentally right that McEnroe beat Connors — my belief was not based on the right kind of justification.
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