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In this episode, we complete our full-text reading of my book, Knowledge By Acceptance, with Chapter 10, "Finalizing our Analysis of Knowledge."     In this final chapter, I reveal the solution to the Gettier Problems and thus show how we can analyze the concept of knowledge into a set of conditions that must be met in order for a person to *know* something, rather than to merely believe it.  In this episode, I provide audio of the full text of this last chapter, read by a quite-good computer voice. For those who wish to read along, a full-text version of the chapter is available to my Patreon supporters via my website, https://JamesGraf.org. Just find today's episode and follow the links.  For academics, I have also made available a free, draft academic paper on my final analysis of knowledge, my No Unacceptable Element theory. Just go to JamesGraf.org, to the "Papers" tab, and download the PDF - the download is free - there is no paywall involved. The book, Knowledge By Acceptance, is part of an intended three-book series to construct a complete theory of knowledge. Whether outside academia, or within the context of a graduate degree, I intend to continue this work during my career. I have already sketched out my key arguments for these two books, though I do not have the financial ability to begin writing proper.  I intend to use future episodes of this podcast to explore the theories of living and dead philosophers that I suspect may help me with any parts of this larger scope of work - this attempt to understand the nature of the true and the good, which I think of as "Plato's Projects." This may include summaries and discussions of theories old and new, and it hopefully will include interviews with philosophers about theories - whether their own on those of history's greats.   Those who wish to support the future of this podcast can find out more at JamesGraf.org/Support