Re: "Doing" Epistemology?

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Luis' reply is long so i'll just reply to one of his remarks:

I do not say that epistemologists study knowledge tokens. The point is that 
i'm not using 'knowledge' to refer to tokens. I'm saying that there is a 
sense of 'knowledge' that doesn't refer to tokens.

It's like Moore on the difference between 'good' and the 'the good' in 
Principia Ethica. An ethicist studies the object 'good' and not 'the good' 
(i hope i've got Moore right here), and to mix the two up can result in 
fallacy.

Thinking about green does not mean thinking about green things.

Of course, what one thinks about green, good, or knowledge, will probably 
have some bearing on how you end up thinking about green-, good- or 
known-things. In fact, that's probably why its worth thinking about the 
universals in the first place. (Am i slipping 'universals' in superficially 
here?)

I think that Luis and me probably agree(!), but in misunderstanding me he 
thinks that I disagree with him.



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