On Mar 21, 2010, at 10:14 PM, Ted Winslow wrote:
> If my "seeing and judging" is determined by an inescapable
> "epistemological frame," then what I see and judge isn't reality as
> it is in itself which, on this assumption about my "seeing and
> judging," is unknowable.
That frame is created by our embeddeness in society, discourse, etc. It's not some random personal thing.
> So any knowledge claim that goes beyond my own existence now, e.g a
> knowledge claim about my own existence five minutes ago, is
> inconsistent with this assumption. My "seeing and judging" of this
> is necessarily determined by this "epistemological frame" and hence
> can't be knowledge of the reality of my existence five minutes ago.
Why do you think this frame is so unstable?
Doug