Whose ways of knowing count?
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Whose ways of knowing count — the question?
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Which methods of knowing get accepted as 'real', and which (meditation, introspection, oral tradition) get dismissed.
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Ways of knowing often dismissed?
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Meditation, introspection, and oral/indigenous traditions — waved away for not looking like written, experimental science.
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Introspection?
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Carefully looking inward at your own experience — often dismissed as 'just subjective', yet it's how we know our own minds.
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Why isn't dismissing these ways neutral?
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Drawing the line around 'real knowledge' is itself a choice about whose methods get to count.
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Epistemic injustice (Fricker)?
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Being wronged specifically as a knower — dismissed because of who you are (accent, gender, tradition), not because you're wrong.
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Fricker's two forms of the harm?
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Not being believed when you should be, and a group lacking the very words to name their own experience.
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'Not like our science' vs 'false'?
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Being different from written, experimental science isn't the same as being false — much we accept was never lab-tested.
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The fair objection to these ways?
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Some can't be tested or repeated the way science can, so when people disagree there's no clear way to settle it.
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