ABSTRACT
Plato’s famous jury counterexample to the identification of knowledge (epistêmê) and true belief (true doxa) in the Theaetetus does not introduce a distinction explained by the former’s possession of a foundational kind of internalist justification which the latter lacks, as this counterexample is sometimes taken to do. Rather, the distinction it introduces is explained by knowledge’s (or understanding’s) possession of a holistic kind of factive explanation (logos) which true belief lacks.
