Re: Summary so far on DJUNO

[bob@rattlesnake.com]

    > Epistemology is defined as a means ofknowing.  Thus if there is
    > an epistemology for something it MUST be known to those who
    > subscribe to that epistemology (barring subjective
    > epistemologies).

    The logic of the latter sentence is flawed. If there is a means of
    leaving the room it does not follow than anyone actually leaves
    the room.

No, a `means of knowing' is different from an `act of leaving'.  A
more accurate metaphor is "ability to leave the room".

Thus, your statement is more accurately put:

    If there is a means of leaving the room, it follows than anyone
    who has that ability has the means of leaving the room.

This is similar to Lojbab's formulation:

    If there is a means of knowing, it follows than the means must be
    available to those who subscribe to that means of knowing.

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