opic 1: Justified True Belief According to both Plato and Lynch, knowledge is justified true belief or true belief with an added account. The problem for the Martians is that they don’t quite understand what this means and why it is, as Lynch says, only a minimal definition of knowledge. What more could there be to knowledge than having a belief that is true and that you can justify? This thing that Lynch talks about, understanding . . . what’s up with that? Why can’t humans just look everything up online. That’s what the Martians do, and they think it works just fine. Finally, these beliefs that we supposedly know, how do we go about coming up with them? This guy Peirce says something about methods of coming up with beliefs and following the scientific method, but it gets kind of fuzzy in Martian minds. Can you clear that up? In the end, what do you think about these philosophers’ accounts of knowledge and how we come to have knowledge? Why is that your view? Should the Martians agree with you?
