Nozick apparently intended his definition to apply to single beliefs. I applied it to belief-creating strategies (or procedures, methods, mechanisms) rather than to individual beliefs. These strategies are to be evaluated in terms of their overall results if applied widely. Then I noticed that your two Gettier scenarios involved strategies which, respectively, violated and conformed to the definition as I applied it.
Nozick apparently intended his definition to apply to single beliefs. I applied it to belief-creating strategies (or procedures, methods, mechanisms) rather than to individual beliefs. These strategies are to be evaluated in terms of their overall results if applied widely. Then I noticed that your two Gettier scenarios involved strategies which, respectively, violated and conformed to the definition as I applied it.
That’s all. I am not drawing conclusions (yet).
I’m reminded of the Golden Rule. Since I would like if everyone would execute “if (I am Jiro) then rob”, I should execute that as well.
It’s actually pretty hard to define what it means for a strategy to be exceptionless, and it may be subject to a grue/bleen paradox.