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F’ed up Gettier problems that do not include feline

 23/09/20 I have been out of contact with June Scarlet for over a year. As this is out of character for June Scarlet , to not contact me for so long, I come to the belief that June Scarlet is dead, and I am justified in believing so. Or rather, because I cannot come to terms with this belief of mine, I shove this belief to the back of my head, instead holding a more general belief that “one of my friends from JC is dead”. Unbeknownst to me, June Scarlet has actually migrated to someplace far away, and deleted all her contacts, in order to run away from the old life she hates, and is not, in fact, dead. However, also unbeknownst to me, another friend, Mic, has recently passed away due to a Myocardial Infarction, and I did not receive news of this because I have fallen out with her. As such, my belief that “one of my JC friends is dead” is true. Regarding this statement, “one of my friends from JC is dead”, I have a Justified True Belief of it. 1.      It is true that one of my JC fr