Full Idea
There are complaints that contemporary epistemology is too atomistic, and that the value of understanding has been neglected.
Clarification
'atomistic' implies 'one bit at a time'
Gist of Idea
Modern epistemology is too atomistic, and neglects understanding
Source
Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski (Virtues of the Mind [1996], I 2)
Book Reference
Zagzebski,Linda: 'Virtues of the Mind' [CUP 1996], p.29
A Reaction
This is because of the excessive influence of logic in contemporary analytic philosophy, which has to reduce knowledge to K(Fa), rather than placing it in a human context.