Indigenous African epistemologies systematically privilege communal consensus and environmental observation as legitimate sources of moral knowledge, not individual revelation alone.
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Ways of knowing or methods that are considered valid and worthy of respect as genuine ways to find truth.
epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
moral knowledge(Used to argue that moral anti-realism precludes genuine moral knowledge)
Knowledge of objective moral truths, which requires the existence of objective moral properties