“the sky is blue” and “it is rational to believe that the sky is blue” (indeed the justifiability of the former just is the content of the latter.)
This. You have created an example that shows that it is utterly impossible for a creature with our limited primate capabilities to actually know The Truth. What we can do is pay close attention to what we think and why we think that to be so.
In your case, there’s an overwhelming amount of good reason to believe the sky is blue to anyone who doesn’t know about these loki-like aliens (I really wanted to call them ‘lokiens’). You might be wrong, and it could possibly lead to bad consequences in the future. But the alternative, believing something to be true without good reason, is crazy.
This. You have created an example that shows that it is utterly impossible for a creature with our limited primate capabilities to actually know The Truth. What we can do is pay close attention to what we think and why we think that to be so.
In your case, there’s an overwhelming amount of good reason to believe the sky is blue to anyone who doesn’t know about these loki-like aliens (I really wanted to call them ‘lokiens’). You might be wrong, and it could possibly lead to bad consequences in the future. But the alternative, believing something to be true without good reason, is crazy.