Round 2: Tossup 11

To criticize theories of this property, Laurence BonJour imagines a clairvoyant man named Norman (-5[1])thinking the president was in New York. (-5[2])To explain different levels of this property, Roderick Chisholm borrows legal terms like “beyond reasonable doubt” while explicating (-5[1])his theory of internalism. An Alvin Goldman paper argues that this property comes from the reliability of mental processes that lead to ideas; that paper influenced reliabilism, which disagrees with evidentialism over the circumstances where beliefs can hold this property. (-5[3])In English, this (10[1])property is the first part of a traditional three-word (-5[1])definition (10[1])criticized by Edmund Gettier (10[1])in a 3-page paper. (10[2])For 10 points, according to a definition given by Plato in Theaetetus, (10[1])what additional property must true belief have to be knowledge? (10[1])■END■ (10[4])

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