Talk:Smith and Jones

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Smith and Jones are the names of the two characters in either of Gettier's famous cases in his 1963 paper "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?" [published in the philosophy journal Analysis]

There may be a connection and a callback, though no such analogue has been conclusively shown, to chapter 3 of Mark Twain's famous short story Little Bessie

The use of Smith and Jones as generic names has an actual literary/rhetorical lineage, and to look up "Smith and Jones" on wikipedia yields a very mediocre disambiguation page.

-Seth

Shersch (talk) 03:57, 21 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

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