These are cases used to refute that knowledge is simply:
- Belief
- Truth
- Justification
Examples
- Suppose Evan believes harmful mushrooms are harmless because he reads a misprinted field guide
- Thus, Evan believes that some mushrooms in his kitchen are harmless
- Evan has justification that the mushrooms are harmless
- Evan’s wife put some harmless mushrooms in the kitchen the other day
- Evan does not know that there are harmless mushrooms in the kitchen
- The fact of ‘there are harmless mushrooms in the kitchen’ is true
- Evan does not have this knowledge, even though all 3 variables are met