(THREE)

However, the more important “truth” is that there have always been at any point in our western intellectual history a diversity of epistemologies among our very best thinkers, our most widely respected intellectuals. Therefore, unless one can first prove that this epistemology with its criterion of truth, is right and all others are wrong; in the very real world of human dialogue one must always be open to the possibility that one’s opposite number in a respectful argument may be operating within a different epistemology (formal or informal); and therefore each of us may be operating with a different criterion of truth (formal or informal), and therefore each of us may very well have different truths, different conclusions that satisfy our implicit criterion of truth.