Knowledge has become a very complex issue in recent years and today knowing what to believe is harder than ever. With the seemingly spineless structure of the media and the topics they are reporting on, it is easy to feel like you have no true way of knowing what is real. The age old philosophy used to be that if you had a justified true belief, it must be considered to be knowledge. Many philosopher’s today support this theory however, according to Edmund L. Gettier in his essay Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?, just because you have a justified true belief does not mean that it is knowledge. The distinction he is attempting to make between the two is much more involved than a simple two page essay with a few examples. His essay does
