Can a Justified Belief Be False?

Canadian Journal of Philosophy 6 (3):561 - 568 (1976)
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Abstract

Robert richman tries to defend a justified-True-Belief analysis of knowledge by attacking the assumption that a justified belief can be false. But, Although 'p is justified but false' is incoherent if asserted about the way things actually are, It is not incoherent if asserted about a supposed situation. And critics of a justified-True-Belief analysis need only do the latter

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Prospects for a Causal Theory of Knowledge.Philip P. Hanson - 1978 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 8 (3):457 - 473.

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