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I was thinking that one solution might be to specify that the "justification" also has to be a justified true belief. In this case, the justification that you see a cow isn't true, so it isn't a JTB.

Of course that devolves rapidly into trying to find the "base case" of knowledge that are inherent



This and many other suggestions have been explored, and usually found wanting (see e.g. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/knowledge-analysis/#NoFal...).




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