Narrator: EPISTEMOLOGY COMICS
T-Rex: If I say "Guys, I know I'm rad", what am I saying? What does it actually mean to KNOW something? Philosophers have struggled with this for ages!
T-Rex: Luckily the answer is super easy and they should have come up with it sooner!
T-Rex: Knowledge of anything, radness included, comes about if three conditions are met: that this thing is true, that I believe it to be true, and that I have a JUSTIFIED cause for this belief! Perhaps my justification of radness is that I've been shot out of a cannon onto a motorbike, which is extremely rad. When these three conditions are met, then I've got what's called a Justified True Belief, and that, my friends, is what knowledge is!
Utahraptor: Okay, so we're hanging out, and I say "T-Rex, I'm gonna go nap in your bed."
T-Rex: I say, "Dude, feel free!"
Utahraptor: However, once in your room I startle a sleepy murderer, who without alarming you, quietly murders me, stuffs me in the closet, and then goes back to nappy times - in your bed!! A few minutes later you say "Nice. An orange dude is sleeping in my bed". Clearly, this is justified, and it may even be true.
Off panel: But only if the murderer was orange! Don't you see? It's sheer luck that this murderer was coloured to make your belief true. Are you really going to call random chance "knowledge"?
T-Rex: Utahraptor!!
T-Rex: Please don't get murdered in my bedroom, Utahraptor
