In your draft paper, you must explain the background material necessary for addressing the evaluative question in your longer paper. You must do all of 1-3 and 6-9, under “general writing advice” below.

General writing advice:
● Be sure to include a clear introduction, explaining to your reader what you will be doing in your paper.
● Clearly explain all background material necessary to fully addressing your chosen topic.
● Be sure to write in a way that would be clear to an intelligent person who has no philosophical background. (This will help you know whether you have explained all of the needed background.)
● Do NOT merely state your view. Justify it.
● When writing the critical portion of your paper, imagine that you are trying to persuade someone who disagrees with you. The test is: Given what you’ve said, should they lose some confidence in their opposing view? (This test will help you know whether you have merely stated your view or have actually given a justification in favor of it.)
● Make your prose reader-friendly. The material should be clearly organized and include transition sentences.
● Include page numbers.
● Include your name and the day and time of your section on the BACK of the last page of your paper.
● You must upload an electronic copy to SafeAssign on Blackboard to receive credit for your paper.
● Clearly communicating complicated ideas to others is an incredibly important, general job skill. Treat this as an opportunity to practice and improve!

Paper Topic:
● Carefully explain Gettier’s case involving Smith the job candidate and what he thinks that example shows. Then give the best reply to Gettier you can think of in defense of the hypothesis that Knowledge= Justification+Truth+Belief.

In your draft paper, you must explain the background material neces...