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Full Idea
I have always said that a belief was knowledge if it was 1) true, ii) certain, iii) obtained by a reliable process.
Gist of Idea
A belief is knowledge if it is true, certain and obtained by a reliable process
Source
Frank P. Ramsey (The Foundations of Mathematics [1925], p.258), quoted by Michael Potter - The Rise of Analytic Philosophy 1879-1930 66 'Rel'
Book Ref
Potter,Michael: 'The Rise of Anaytic Philosophy 1879-1930' [Routledge 2020], p.431
A Reaction
Not sure why it has to be 'certain' as well as 'true'. It seems that 'true' is objective, and 'certain' subjective. I think I know lots of things of which I am not fully certain. Reliabilism long preceded Alvin Goldman.
Related Idea
Idea 22326 Knowledge needs more than a sensitive response; the response must also be appropriate [Russell]
| 303 | Say how many teeth the other has, then count them. If you are right, we will trust your other claims [Plato] |
| 22760 | Madmen are reliable reporters of what appears to them [Sext.Empiricus] |
| 22325 | A belief is knowledge if it is true, certain and obtained by a reliable process [Ramsey] |
| 19724 | Belief is knowledge if it is true, certain, and obtained by a reliable process [Ramsey] |
| 6356 | Maybe a reliable justification must come from a process working with its 'proper function' [Plantinga, by Pollock/Cruz] |
| 6875 | Reliability involves truth, and truth is external [Goldman] |
| 8829 | Justification depends on the reliability of its cause, where reliable processes tend to produce truth [Goldman] |
| 8810 | If someone rejects good criticism through arrogance, that is irrelevant to whether they have knowledge [Feldman/Conee] |
| 8889 | Reliabilists disagree over whether some further requirement is needed to produce knowledge [Bonjour] |
| 3573 | Externalist reliability refers to a range of conventional conditions [Williams,M] |
| 2740 | A reliability theory of knowledge seems to involve truth as correspondence [Audi,R] |
| 9165 | Reliability only makes a rule reasonable if we place a value on the truth produced by reliable processes [Field,H] |
| 10343 | Process reliabilism has been called 'virtue epistemology', resting on perception, memory, reason [Kusch] |
| 19727 | Reliabilist knowledge is evidence based belief, with high conditional probability [Comesaņa] |