The point being that hardly anything you "know" actually means you have a 1:1 mental map of external reality The idea of a Gettier problem is dissecting some apparent example of "justified true belief" to find out one link in the chain of "justification" is only true by "luck"
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But you can find that in anything! Most of the things we "know" we only know accurately from a view of ten feet back, and if you zoom in close the links in the chain are just bullshit we take on faith
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The things we "know" are the things that *work*, that allow us to function in the world and do things we want to achieve goals we set for ourselves The idea that we do this by making a perfect little simulation in our heads that actually reflects external reality is a pipe dream
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I am personally fairly sympathetic to Quine's approach. "This is a less useful question than the last 100 years of writing would have you believe, instead let's look at how it happens in the world"
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I mean he said in like 10,000 extra words as a prologue, but still same idea
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