RE: "Doing" Epistemology?

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Dear all,

One obvious counter example to the argument, which was meant to establish 
that there are distinctively epistemological meta philosophical question....

We could just to be stubborn and say (b*) DOES apply to other disciplines, 
because those other disiplines assume that they can have some kind of 
knowledge in their spacific fields. The idea being, that asking the meta 
question (b*) IS relevent when we are talking about ethics or poliitcs or 
whatever becaue the answer to (b*)  may help to determine what we can know 
in ethics, say, or it may help to discovery that a theory of knowledge in 
ethics- which would deal with all the knowledge claims that are made in the 
ethical pactice, and how it is we can know them etc- has its very own 
preconditions.

In that case there would only be two questions:
1. there are general, natural, meta philosophical questions which apply 
across the board
2. there are specific meta philosophical questions which apply across the 
board

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