FRIESIAN

Friesian epistemology is basically an internalist theory of knowledge. "Externalist" theories, based on some external relationship, like causality, to account for knowledge, are rejected on the principle that the difference between knowledge and opinion can only be distinguished on the basis of some internal evidence. No external relationship is available for internal examination as evidence for knowledge. On the other hand, Kantian metaphysics, as follows, holds that external relationships are internal in that the objects of experience are phenomenal contents of consciousness. Thus Friesian epistemology in fact can subsume externalist considerations within itself. (However, note well, the treatment in "Ontological Undecidability" and elsewhere shifts the meaning of "external" and "internal" so that Kant-Friesian epistemology is neither externalist nor internalist... Occasionally, some rare correspondents are so enthusiastic that they hope to organize a sort of Friesian movement. In..

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