{"id":38540,"date":"2019-05-28T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T05:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38540"},"modified":"2019-04-28T08:29:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T12:29:43","slug":"qotd-epistemology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/05\/28\/qotd-epistemology\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Epistemology"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The other day I was explaining to a young person what the word &#8220;epistemology&#8221; means. To keep things simple, I said it is how you know what you know, or in terms of political discussion, how you know you are right. They asked for an example. I said that the use of logic and reason beginning from a set of givens or first principles is one approach to epsitemology. They said they assumed everyone used that approach. I told them that I thought not &mdash; that, by my observation, the most common epistemology through history has been: &#8220;I was told it by a high status person in my family or tribe.&#8221; Based on sampling of social media, I still think this is still the case today.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Meyer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coyoteblog.com\/coyote_blog\/2017\/05\/historys-most-common-epistemology.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;History&#8217;s Most Common Epistemology&#8221;, <em>Coyote Blog<\/em><\/a>, 2017-05-09.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I was explaining to a young person what the word &#8220;epistemology&#8221; means. To keep things simple, I said it is how you know what you know, or in terms of political discussion, how you know you are right. They asked for an example. I said that the use of logic and reason [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,53,41],"tags":[593],"class_list":["post-38540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-socialmedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-a1C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38541,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38540\/revisions\/38541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}