A conspicuous art: putting Gettier to the test
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Professional philosophers say it’s obvious that a Gettier subject does not know. But experimental philosophers and psycho logists have argued that laypeople and nonWesterners view Gettier subjects very differently, based on experiments where laypeople tend to ascribe knowledge to Gettier subjects. I argue that when ef fectively probed, laypeople and nonWesterners unambiguously agree that Gettier subjects do not know.
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