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In a three-page paper, Edmund Gettier constructed cases where all three conditions hold yet we hesitate to grant knowledge. In one famous version, Smith has strong evidence that Jones will get a job and that Jones has ten coins in his pocket, so Smith infers that the person who will get the job has ten coins in their pocket. Unknown to Smith, Smith himself will get the job, and Smith happens also to have ten coins in his pocket. Smith's belief is true, he believes it, and it is justified by his evidence, yet it is true only by coincidence.
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