Die sogenannten Gettier-Fälle in der Erkenntnistheorie, insofern sie von Gettier selbst ersonnen wurden, wirken etwas streitbar und konstruiert. Dennoch gibt es weniger undurchsichtige Fälle. Einer stammt von Gilbert Harman (aus “thought”):

“A political leader is assassinated. His associates, fearing a coup, decide to pretend that the bullet hit someone else. On nationwide television they announce that an assassination attempt has failed to kill the leader but has killed a secret service man by mistake. However, before the announcement is made, an enterprising reporter on the scene telephones the real story to his newspaper, which has included the story in its final edition. Jill buys a copy of that paper and reads the story of the assassination. What she reads is true and so are her assumptions about how the story came to be in the newspaper. The reporter, whose by-line appears, saw the assassination and dictated his report, which is now printed as he dictated it. Jill has justified true belief and, it would seem, all her intermediate conclusions are true. But she does not know…”

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