@misc{Lexicon of Arguments, title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 28 Mar 2024}, author = {Poundstone, W.}, subject = {Knowledge}, note = {I 184 Knowledge/Poundstone: variants on Justified True Belief: Unjustified true belief: E.g., Democritus's atoms. >Democritus. Justified false belief: E.g., most cosmologies (also Copernicus). Justified false assumption believed: People who doubt false cosmologies, i.e., the Church, which doubted Copernicus" justified but ultimately false theory. >Cosmology. I 186 Truth that is not believed for lack of justification: The philosophers who doubted Democritus. Unjustified belief that is rejected: Ex perpetual motion machine. I 187 Gettier/Poundstone: being right for the right reasons, except that those reasons don't apply. >E. Gettier, >Causal Theory of Knowledge, >Knowledge. I 208 Def Knowledge/Possible Worlds/Hintikka: "increasing knowledge is the reduction in the number of possible worlds consistent with what is known." - Ex All we know is consistent with there being life on Alpha Centauri, but also consistent with there being no life there. - Our ignorance is so great that we cannot distinguish the real world from a merely possible world. >Possible worlds, >Impossible world.}, note = { Poundstone I William Poundstone Labyrinths of Reason, NY, 1988 German Edition: Im Labyrinth des Denkens Hamburg 1995 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=286110} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=286110} }