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1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your blog along with these
instructions.
5. Don’t you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your
closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is
closest.
From Epistemology: the theory of knowledge by Cardinal, Hayward and Jones (Cardinal being my slightly Lockheartesque Philosophy lecturer, who keeps making us buy his books):
Accordingly, epistemology often begins with the question of what precisely knowledge it. However, going against this trend, we have left the analysis of what 'knowledge' actually means until last. By first exploring the problems of epistemology, we hope to have sharpened our understanding of what knowledge is in advance of attempting to home in on a definition. The term 'knowledge', however, doesn't have just one meaning, and philosophers have traditionally divided knowledge into three main types.
