The Initial Requirement of Knowledge Norms:Sensibility and Clarity with a Discussion on the Normative Issues in Epistemology
Knowledge is essentially normative,and its normativity is reflected not only in the normative role of knowledge in current mainstream interpretations but,more fundamentally,in the normative connotation of knowledge itself.Beyond logical and conceptual analysis,history reveals that clear and distinct sensibility is the first connotation that defines the normativity of knowledge.This new discovery regarding the normativity of knowledge is bound to contribute to a new understanding of many challenging issues related to knowledge normativity.