Generally speaking.

Generally speaking, we can distinguish facts from our ways of knowing about them. onward the one hand, there is a quality instantiated by an object; forward the other, there is our knowledge of this instantiation. The instantiation of the goods is one thing; the faculty by the agency of means of which we discover it is another. This distinction simply thinks the familiar realist separation between ontology and epistemology: the phenomenon of knowledge is not to be conflated with the knowledge itself. Knowledge is a relational matter, an interaction between an phenomenon and a knowing subject; for a like reason the idea of ...

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