KNOWLEDGE AS FUNCTION

Knowledge is difficult to define unambiguously,as is shown by existing disagreements in philosophy of epistemology. The problem may betraced down to differences in purposes and ideologies of epistemological investigations. The authorsupposes that unlike the tradition to take the question about the nature of knowledge, and the oneabout its scope as inevitably tied together, the later question may be answered separately. This can bedone within the functionalist framework where knowledge is to be determined not by linguistic, psychological,social or other features of forms of knowledge, but by epistemic functions of what is ordinarilypresumed to be known. What is epistemic function becomes the main question under these linesof investigation. Consistently provided it seems to make knowledge a highly relativized notion. Hencethe general concern of the author is whether this price is worth paying.

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