Having outlined what I have chosen to call a “common sense” approach to this ubiquitous concept, let me be clear that I am not denigrating other possible approaches. I have simply chosen to outline a way forward avoiding technical, ambiguous, vague, cryptic, or just “fuzzy” terms and staying with the familiar, “common” terms we tend…

To begin this introduction to my own “common sense” approach to this subject, let me suggest at the outset that it involves two questions: What is it we are to know, and How are we to know it? So this issue turns on What and How! If one turns to Socrates, the issue was connected…