RE: "Doing" Epistemology?

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Dear All,

Dan,

You continue to demonstrate a failure to grasp what is, indeed, a difficult 
issue. I suppose one should not do meta philosophy before one has an 
adequate grasp of philosophical issues. The original question was not 
trivial. It was a meta philosophical question. A question directed towards 
the practice of epistemology itself. It is in attempting to answer that 
question that the debate which you deem ?substantial? and ?interesting? has 
emerged. The point of the discussion has not been at all altered, but it 
*has* developed. You then, very rudely, claim that a debate has developed 
only due to a charitable reading of the original question. This is false.  
No doubt an inability to see the point of the original question leads one to 
such a conclusion.

You make two philosophical points. First:
?I think that we need to try harder to say, if and if so why, there are 
distinctive meta philosophical questions raised by epistemology?

This is interesting. Well done. One potential answer to this question was 
given by Craig. Epistemological meta philosophical question do exist, they 
are not psudoe questions, and they should be raised because answering them 
might serve to substantiate or undermine epistemological practice. It may be 
that the meta philosophical questions raised are just a breed of 
epistemological questions. This is *partly* the point of asking ?what is it 
to do epistemology?? Are we doing epistemology in answering these meta 
philosophical questions? Etc.

Second:
?If there aren?t any distinctive (meta philosophical) questions then I take 
it that epistemology becomes a case study rather than a specific object of 
enquiry??

You present us with a conditional statement, the antecedent of which is 
false, so the consequent is irrelevant, if not unintelligible (as 
formulated)

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