Epistemology, defined
20 Jul 2026 · 1 min
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Tamsen Webster explains epistemology as the positionality or way we know what we know. She argues that uncovering hidden disagreements about how we know things is crucial before arguments escalate.
Tamsen Webster explains epistemology as the positionality or way we know what we know. She argues that uncovering hidden disagreements about how we know things is crucial before arguments escalate.
There's a name for this kind of description of the nature of the position of where you're standing when you take your perspective on something, your positionality. This layer is called epistemology. Fancy word, basically just means your position on how we know that we know or how we know what we know. Just remember that it's another version of one of these hidden disagreements that's really important to surface before an argument or a real disagreement suddenly scales.
