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9 mark answers: ‘Outline and explain Gettier’s objection to the tripartite theory of knowledge’
Make sure the examiner knows you know what the tripartite view of knowledge is
What is Gettier’s objection and how does he illustrate this?
Avoid being descriptive
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3 mins explaining and handing out then 40 mins

2. Recap What are the 3 types of knowledge?
What type of knowledge does JTB concern?
What is meant by JTB conditions are individually necessary?
What does it mean that they are jointly sufficient?
what did Gettier criticise?
What two options are there to solve Gettier’s objection?
Which option does infallibilism try to do?
What is infallibilism?

3. Evaluating Infallibilism and The No False Lemmas Condition
Questions to consider:
1) How does Infallibilism respond to Getter?
2) Is Infallibilism successful in responding to Gettier?
3) How does the No False Lemmas condition respond to Gettier?
2 minutes

4. Share ideas in pairs and fill in the table below.
From your reading, what are the strengths and weaknesses of Infallibilism?
Share ideas in pairs and fill in the table below.
Strengths of Infallibilism as a response to Gettier
Weaknesses of Infallibilism as a response to Gettier.
Infallibilism is not open to Gettier cases because none of the cases would count as knowledge in the first place as they are open to some doubt.
By restricting knowledge to only those things that cannot be doubted then there is no room for Gettier counter examples to thrive as these all rely on beliefs that are merely plausibly justified - which might be false, but turn out to be luckily true.
It accords with our intuition that knowledge involves a level of certainty.
Infallibilism implies that we have very little knowledge – going against our intuition that we know a lot of things.
Unless Descartes can build his a system of knowledge only using infallible beliefs then Infallibilism leads to scepticism.
Counter... Maybe our common definition of knowledge does need such radical revision, but, many philosophers are reluctant to accept such a radical revision, claiming that, to diverge too radically from common usage involves our leaving behind the very concept we set out to analyse.
Infallibilism seems to be prescribing what our concept of knowledge should be, rather than analysing/describing what it is.
15 mins 10 minutes, 5 minutes to share.

5. Is the Infallibilist response to Gettier successful?No
Yes
5 mins

6. No False Lemmas
Read pp of the Cardinal book (stop at the learn more section) and answer the questions below:
What is a ‘lemma’?
What aspect of Gettier cases does the No False Lemma theory focus upon?
What is knowledge according to this theory?
10 mins

7. Read pp.82-84 of the Cardinal text and do the activity on p.83.
Answer: Does the No False Lemma Condition successfully respond to Gettier?

8. Can you... 3.
Explain how the No False Lemmas condition responds to Gettier? 1.
Offer a strength of Infallibilism? 2.
Explain how Infallibilism responds to Gettier? 4. 5.
Explain what a Lemma is?
Offer a weakness of Infallibilism?