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Excerpt from The Functional Versus the Representational Theories of Knowledge in Locke's Essay, Vol. 3: A Dissertation, Submitted to the Faculties of the Graduate Schools of Arts, Literature, and Science, in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, (Department of Philosophy)
It is frequently said that this state of afiairs is due to the fact that in turning philosopher the practical man and the scientist attempt to carry over their standards into the realm of ultimate truth and reality, where they are inadequate, because applied beyond the limited sphere in which and for which they are created.' From this statement it appears that the paradox is due to a difference between the epistemologist's standard of ultimate truth and reality and the everyday working standard; and it is assumed that it is the latter that is inadequate. But the statement suggests also that, formally at any rate, the paradox could as well be stated from the opposite side; fact that the epistemologist is unable to carry his truth and reality into the realm of everyday life. In still oth the paradox may be due, not to the carrying over, but to the carry over, the standard of everyday life into our epistemology. Course, our epistemology professes to make explicit the standard involved in everyday experience. But the very fact that this expli cation issues in this paradox suggests that somewhere in the process this standard becomes so changed as to be no longer available for its original purpose.
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