Ito, Daigoro: When Does Epistemic Evaluation Begin? Admissibility, Boundary Structure, and the Non-Applicability of Gettier Cases

Since Edmund Gettier’s (1963) challenge to the justified true belief analysis of knowledge, epistemology has exhibited a persistent and systematically regenerative pattern: the continual production of counterexamples and the apparent failure of competing analyses to converge. Standard responses treat Gettier cases as failures within epistemic evaluation and attempt to stabilize evaluation through increasingly refined conditions for knowledge attribution. This paper argues that the source of this