SOSC 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Episteme
2 Dec 2015
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Knowledge is relative (depends partly on our interpretations and perspectives/value systems) not absolute. If we discovered reality ex/ there was a beating. The king case suggests is that there is no simple recourse to the visible, to visual evidence, which is always read . Episteme: a system of understanding which gives shape to the knowledge of that time. Episteme defines the conditions of possibility of all knowledge, whether expressed in a theory or silently invested in a practice. The historical a priori that grounds knowledge and its discourses and thus represents the condition of their possibility within a particular epoch. Separating out from among all the statements which are possible those that will be acceptable. Jury: simi valley, concluded the evidence was not enough to convict the officers. Land is associated with feminine in the west white woman. Blacks were allowed to vote even before the civil war and thus the white man said the black men are violating everything.
