In the beginning...

In the beginning, knowledge was defined as justified true belief. After Edmund Gettier's infamous article, ``Knowledge is not justified true belief,'' which de-bunked this definition, was released, an endless stream of new ideas and counter examples emerged. All of these counter examples have been met with a somewhat luke-warm acceptance.

Before we go into the Gettier problem, we must first look at the previously accepted definition of knowledge, which was based on the concept of justified true belief.