For example, Michael Dummett cautions against trying to explain knowledge of a first language on the model of knowledge of a second language.
For example, positivism attempts to explain knowledge in terms of natural science (physics, biology), while Marxism appeals to historical social sciences.
Quine, who introduced naturalized epistemology four decades ago (Quine 1969a), urges epistemologists to renounce the project of explaining knowledge a priori, from first principles, thus independently of science.
This explains why knowledge of the pressure and temperature dependences of the optical properties of the crystalline parts, which compose the foams, is of primary concern for computing the latter properties correctly.
To his friends that night, he said, he explained his knowledge of gay Web sites by saying he had used them to meet gay men and steal from them.
The gunman, Micah Johnson, was a carpentry and masonry specialist in the Army Reserve, which would not explain his knowledge of explosives, the chief said, adding, "You can learn all that online, I guess".
George Osborne has come under fresh pressure from Labour to explain his knowledge of the conduct of HSBC's Swiss subsidiary and the extent to which the Treasury was aware that HMRC had decided to take a light-touch approach to seeking prosecutions for those suspected of tax evasion.
The challenge for the Platonist is to explain how knowledge of and reference to abstract objects is possible.
However, they still need to explain our knowledge of the possibility of the relevant structures, since the translation scheme commits them to such possibility.
The synergistic action can not be reasonably explained without knowledge of the exact composition of presumably active ingredients in the extracts and juices.
