Talk:Applied epistemology

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Is the meaning of know metaepistemology?

Just here to point out that this article probably shouldn't say in Wikipedia's voice that what the meaning of know is is a question of metaepistemology. Seems like there's disagreement about this in the academic literature. Sure you have people like Fumerton saying this is a metaepistemological question, but the IEP article cited in this article by Kyriacou outright says that it is a question of normative epistemology:

"As is well-known, epistemologists are intrigued by the perennial question “What is knowledge?” and, accordingly, try to come up with plausible reductive analyses. This much is first-order normative epistemological theorizing at its best."

Another source stating this is Kuenzle's Refurbishing Epistemology: A Meta-Epistemological Framework:

"Accordingly, he categorises attempts to find out what is needed for true belief to count as knowledge – surely work as paradigmatically epistemological in character as anybody could wish for – as work in meta-epistemology [...] The price Alston pays is that a lot of work and positions previously seen as epistemological (even paradigmatically so) would now have to be labelled “meta-epistemological”."

Perhaps the idea that the meaning of know is metaepistemological in nature should be attributed in the article? If there isn't any opposition, I will change it eventually. Thanks. Alduin2000 (talk) 13:08, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

I've gone ahead and made the suggested changes. Alduin2000 (talk) 21:07, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the improvement. Best regards, Darwin Naz (talk) 22:38, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

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