RE: "Doing" Epistemology?

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Dear all,

Doing epistemology is just answering those questions and questions like the 
one i listed. The issue about the correct methodology for the epistemologist 
is interesting.

Ususally, the method is something like this. Answer this question:

1. what can we know.

Then move on to answer the following question, based on your answer to one.

2. what are the nec and suf conditions for knowledge (identified in one)

e.g.

1. propositional knowledge.
2. S, knows that P, where P is an instance of prop knowledge, iff (a) it is 
true (b) it is believed (c) it is justified.

Then someone comes along to contest (2) and new nec and suf conditions are 
suggested

(2*) S knows that P, where P is an instance of prop knowledge iff .....

This is the business of DOING epistemology. But it is only ONE method of 
doing epistemology. Prehaps the method itself should be rejected on account 
of the presuppositions it makes, like for example, it presupposes context 
invarience. It assumes that any instance of propositional knowledge will 
always have the conditions identified in (2) But prehaps in certain context 
propositional knowldede would not have those nec and suf conditions, but in 
others it would.

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