Toni asked:

"Outline and illustrate the role of justification in distinguishing between true belief and knowledge."

I have to answer this for my studies but I keep hitting a brick wall.I understand the basic idea but I
cannot make the answer worth the 15 points I need to achieve.

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Briefly (but this will not, I think, be enough to get you the 15 points, but only enough to get you
started.) True belief is a necessary condition for knowledge but not a sufficient condition. Your true
belief has to be justified. A good illustration of this is that a lucky guess is not knowing. If I think that
Whirlaway is going to win the next race,then, even if it is true that Whirlaway does win the next race, it
would be wrong for me to say that I knewthat Whirlaway would win the next race. If someone asked
me howI knew that, I would have to reply, well, I didn't actually know, it was a lucky guess. What I am
saying, is that I did not have adequate reason to believe that Whirlaway would win the race. Which is
to say, I lacked justification for my belief even though the belief turned out to be true.

By the way, there is good reason to think that even with the addition of justification(or adequate
reason) for my belief, it does not follow that I know. That is, there is good reason to think that even
truth, and adequate justification are not sufficient conditions (even if they are necessary conditions)
for knowledge.

Ken Stern