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Journal of Beijing Normal University(Social Sciences) ›› 2018, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (1): 107-113.

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Gettier Cases and the Conservative Property of Deduction

GUO Jia hong1,LIU Xiao chen2   

  1. 1.Research Center for Value and Culture,School of Philosophy,BNU,Beijing 100875,China;
    2.Institut Jean Nicord,cole Normale Supérieure,rue d'ulm 75005Paris,France
  • Received:2017-01-09 Online:2018-01-15 Published:2019-06-20

Abstract: This article logically analyzes the classical structural Gettier cases,famously known as ‘from false premises to obtain justified true belief via logic deduction’.Through a detailed formal analysis of several classical Gettier cases,it is concluded that during the process of applying a valid deductive inference,if what the premises express is strictly stronger than what the conclusion expresses,then there always exists a situation where at least one Gettier case happens.The fundamental reason under this result is the conservative property of deduction.

Key words: Traditional view of knowledge, Gettier cases, Deduction, Conservative Property

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