Ways of Knowing

September 30th, 2010 Comments Off

There are two kinds of people in the world: ones who believe there is only one proper and valid epistemology to approach an understanding of the world and the others, who are wrong.

I don’t like this claim in religion or politics or in academia. There is too much room for someone to assume that they have the one true answer and curtail discussion and freedom. However, I do not think that every single thing in the entire whole universe is completely relative in value and that you can never make moral, philosophical, or scholarly judgements about the worth of a fact/idea/argument/theory. You can claim that there are multiple means of organizing our ways of knowing about human culture, psychology, and literature without necessarily claiming that the truth value inherent to those various epistemologies is equivalent to a mathematical proof or a scientific theory.

Thoughts?

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