Round 5: Tossup 11

To criticize theories of this property, Laurence BonJour imagines a clairvoyant man named Norman thinking the president was in New York. To explain different levels of this property, Roderick Chisholm borrows legal terms like “beyond reasonable doubt” while explicating his theory of internalism. An Alvin Goldman paper argues that this property comes from the reliability of mental processes (10[1])that lead to ideas; that paper influenced reliabilism, which disagrees with evidentialism over the circumstances where beliefs can hold this property. In English, this property is the first part of a traditional three-word definition (10[2])criticized by Edmund Gettier (10[1])in a 3-page paper. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, according to a definition given by Plato in Theaetetus, what additional property must true belief have to be knowledge? ■END■ (0[3])

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