Capital_Net_6438 t1_iycdta1 wrote on November 30, 2022 at 10:20 AM

Reply to comment by c0rd1s in /r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | November 28, 2022 by BernardJOrtcutt

Seems like your response to the 10 coins example is to reject the hypo. Surely it is possible for Smith to have the belief that whoever will get job has 10 coins in his pocket. As it is also possible for him to believe Jones will be the job winner with 10 coins. The former belief - about whoever - is justified, true, but not known. And thus a counter example to JTB.

c0rd1s t1_iycf7j9 wrote on November 30, 2022 at 10:41 AM

I guess it’s difficult for me to see how this belief is justified if it doesn’t follow from his previous belief that Jones would win the job. In other words, if we accept that these two beliefs are linked, the chain breaks on the first belief that is not true, and it’s irrelevant whether later links yield a true result.