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Theory: Gettier's big discovery came while accidentally reading Descartes backwards. COMIC ◆ https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/demon PATREON ◆ https://www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersmith STORE ◆ https://smbc-store.myshopify.com/

1-panel SMBC comic update - a man and a woman stand side by side. The woman states "our senses are incredibly flawed and our cognition full of confusion and bias. BUT CONSIDER: how can we be certain there isn’t some clever demon sneakily putting justified true beliefs into our minds THE WHOLE TIME." The man is speechless with his mouth open wide. The caption below the comic reads "Among philosophers, this is known as the Reverse Descartes."