The Nayaya Answer To The Gettier Problem

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The Nyaya answer to the Gettier problem starts with the basic layout of the Nyaya possistion.
1.Knowledege is a truth-hitting episode.
2.It is non-dubious in the sense that no reasonable ground for doubting its truth has appeared.
3.It is born of a faultless 'causal' or 'justificatory' factor or, it is born of an 'unfailing' or 'non-deviating' causal factor.

The example of a gambler correctly guessing the number of dice in one's hands is does not fulfill number 2 in that the gambler's answer is doubtable by the gambler.

Knowledge also must be truth-hitting. This would be a causal chain, for example, which would give cause for one to logically a given belief based on some justificatory data which would lead one to hold said belief.
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