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Thursday, September 21, 2006 - I'll have a gettier example with my morning coffee, please...
Whether or not this is a gettier case, it's certainly epistemologically interesting. Standing in the bathroom after just waking up, without a fully engaged set of language corticies, I made an awesome mistake. From Socrates until about 1963, the generally accepted idea of knowledge was "Justified True Belief" (JTB) where you have knowledge about something as long as you have a reason to believe it and it is in fact the case. However, Edmund Gettier provided a set of counter exampls known as Gettier Cases, whereby one has JTB but not knowledge. My gettier case is rather crude, but I think that adds to the humor. For some reason, my internal monologue dictated "I am peeing in the bathroom", but what my mind was thinking was actually closer to "I am peeing in the toilet". I mixed up the words of bathroom and toilet, mistakingly using the first word for the idea of the second, but even the first word had an accurate meaning. I was right! Normally, these types of mistakes which I often make just sound hilarious. But this one was correct! I had an accurate statement, without an accurrate thought. However, I was correct in saying that I was peeing in the bathroom, even though my mind was totally wrong! Normally my mispoken, halfwrangled, not awake gibberish is embarrasing, but this revealed something about knowledge!
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