Gettier cases reveal that knowledge and justified true belief come apart, so a norm requiring knowledge penalizes assertions that are epistemically identical to knowledge from the inside.

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Epistemically identical(epistemology): Identical in terms of how much evidence, reasoning, or justification you have—meaning from your perspective or based on what you can know, two situations look exactly the same even if they're actually different.
Gettier cases(Epistemology): Cases that appear to refute the justified true belief (JTB) analysis of knowledge, named in honour of the philosopher who contributed them to the literature
Justified true belief(Plato's classical analysis of knowledge in epistemology): A characterization of knowledge whereby an agent knows a proposition if and only if the agent believes the proposition, the proposition is true, and the agent has justification for that belief
assertion(Philosophy of language; speech act theory): An illocutionary act characterized by assertoric force together with the applicability of cognitive and social safeguards that distinguish it from other illocutionary acts and other forms of information transfer

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