A man reads a clock that stopped exactly twelve hours ago. It says three, and it is three. That’s Bertrand Russell’s example (1948). In 1963 Edmund Gettier’s three-page paper, with cases of his own, made the point famous: a belief can be true and justified and still not be knowledge.
Ask him the time, as often as you like. Try to catch him being right.
Being right isn’t the same as knowing. A plan can work by luck too, and from the outside, luck and understanding look exactly the same.
Ask yourself. Are you sure because you understand why it worked, or because it did?
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