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3247 | Epistemology is centrally about what we should believe, not the definition of knowledge [Nagel] |
Full Idea: The central problem of epistemology is what to believe and how to justify one's beliefs, not the impersonal problem of whether my beliefs can be said to be knowledge. | |
From: Thomas Nagel (The View from Nowhere [1986], V.1) | |
A reaction: Wrong. The question of whether what one has is 'knowledge' is not impersonal at all - it is having the social status of a knower or expert. |