Re: Summary of summaries on DJUNO

[Rob Zook <rzook@INFORMIX.COM>]

At 05:41 PM 2/18/98 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
>la bab. poi na du la lojbab. cusku di'e
>
>> Cannot be as written, since {djuno} was not specified as being
>> absolute as was {fatci}.   Hence there must be an epistemology for `true'.
>
>"Epistemology" = "theory of knowledge".  Knowledge requires an
>epistemology, but truth requires a metaphysics.  ("Metaphysics"
>is also used in a broader sense including epistemology.)

But this does not correspond to a normal division of philosophy.
go grab any 10 Intro to Philosophy texts and 7 out of those 10
should present philosphy as resting on the three pillars of
Ethics, Metaphysics and Epistemology. Ethics referes very broadly
to Doing, Metaphysics to Being, and Epistemology refers to Knowing.

Naturally they all have some interelation, but emphisizing the
interelatedness of Metaphysics to Epistemology such that metaphysics
includes Epistemology, simply trivializes Epistemology. How we
know does not seem like such a trival subject.


Rob Z.
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