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Posted on May 8, 2020

A Gettier Problem in the Arabian Nights

308—327 ‘Ali Shar and Zumurrud


Edmund L. Gettier III

Embedded within the story of Zumurrud (the slave girl who is appointed king) The Arabian Nights presents an important epistemological conundrum. I thought I would set it out here, so that it might serve as a lesson to all who would listen…

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