Linda Alcoff uses “Epistemologies of ignorance: three types”, improves the previous work already carried out in the field of feminist epistemology and elaborates a typology of ignorance. He proposes that there are three types of epistemologies of ignorance, the knower situation, the perception of standpoint epistemology, and the third is a universal type. Known or unknown knowledge and experience are used to provide a distinction between the powerful and the powerless. Alcoff further argues that traditional epistemology should not be used when evaluating ignorance as it is not sufficiently reflective. Alcoff's view closely mirrors my own, so this is not a critical argument but a concurring view that strengthens his argument. I would like to refer to Alcoff's section on "situated knowers". He refers to the chapters by Code, Harding and Mills, within his proposal of three focal points for analyzing the methods in which ignorance is produced. The first method involves individual situated knowers, the second is through group identities, and the third occurs through larger systems (Alcoff 2007, p. 40). accentuated by the Code's formation of an ecology of ignorance maintained by “networks of distortion and error” (Code 2007, p. 214) that proposes an active correlation between agnotological positions. There is no absolute correlation between understanding-building practices and reverse agnotological practices. Proposing the ecology of ignorance is consistent with Code's broader concept of knowledge-building within ecological thinking (Code 2006). When I am forced to discover the basis of something, I would describe it as "situated ignorances", which would describe the opposite of Code's epista. ...... middle of paper ......hosyncratic individualities and normalizing knowers and knowledge. The epistemology of particular knowledge requires consideration of distinctions and codifies the perspicacity of acquaintances for admission and examination. Once knowledge is understood as distinctive and established by the knower, it gives up its position and converts to the plural. This leads to the understanding of knowers as distinct from themselves. While individual knowledge also develops the epistemological substance that produces a bionetwork of knowledge that notifies and incorporates social groups, organizations and associations. When one fully accepts and keeps in mind the interconnectedness of knowers, the larger epistemological network is a social or epistemological illusion. One that recommends the parameters of how it can be known, what can be known, and what becomes knowledge.
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