Beyond that, I don’t have much to say, except perhaps that I think the problem of the criterion (which you only tangentially bring up in this article, but which I’ve seen you repeatedly mention elsewhere, to the point where I’m starting to suspect it’s some kind of weird hobbyhorse of yours) is nothing more than vague sophistry of the same kind many mainstream philosophers seem so fond of.
Hmm, what can I say about the problem of the criterion? I don’t really mean it to be a hobbyhorse, it’s simply the problem at the heart of epistemology, and thus touches all things. It’s a way we have of talking about the fundamental problem of how we know anything, and permeates all that is built on knowing (or if you like, within ontology/models), so we can only void it if we stop putting our thoughts to words, and not even totally then. We could just as easily talk about it in terms of the grounding problem since that’s the more recent form in takes in analytic philosophy, but the problem of the criterion has historical precedence by some 2500 years.
Hmm, what can I say about the problem of the criterion? I don’t really mean it to be a hobbyhorse, it’s simply the problem at the heart of epistemology, and thus touches all things. It’s a way we have of talking about the fundamental problem of how we know anything, and permeates all that is built on knowing (or if you like, within ontology/models), so we can only void it if we stop putting our thoughts to words, and not even totally then. We could just as easily talk about it in terms of the grounding problem since that’s the more recent form in takes in analytic philosophy, but the problem of the criterion has historical precedence by some 2500 years.