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-Infallibilism uses the first reason to disprove it
-If it is wrong is it really knowledge
-This idea was originally articulated by Edmond Gettier
-A case in which a person has a justified true belief that is not knowledge
-Tom thinks Bob is going to ask his daughter to marry him
-His proof:
-Bob has been dating Angie (Tom’s eldest daughter for 4 years)
-Bob asked Tom how he would feel about having him as a son in law
-Tom’s wife herd Bob talking about how Angie deserved to settle down soon
-Tom neighbor say Bob at the jewelry store buying a ring
-Bob does ask one of Tom’s daughters to marry him!
If we cannot know that this world is real, we cannot prove we have knowledge about it
-Descartes was the first philosopher to give it serious attention
-How do we know we are not dreaming
-When we are dreaming we do not know till we wake up
Bob didn’t ask Angie to marry him but instead asked her little sister Carrie!
-While Tom technically had a justified true belief that Bob would ask his daughter to marry him most of us would not consider this to be knowledge
-Why: because this is more luck than anything
-What this could mean: maybe our whole life is one Gettier problem and we just haven’t realized it yet
-Me and my counterpart have the exact same evidence that our experiences are real and our knowledge is correct it
Only one of us is actually living these experiences, while the other is just a brain in a vat
-It seems unreasonable to say that
-one of us has knowledge while the other does not
-a person can have knowledge even if they are completely off base
-Therefore we can have no knowledge