The prototypical questions of epistemology are: what is truth
? what is knowledge? how is knowledge attained? can knowledge be obtained?
You seem to be using “epistemology” ,to mean a fairly narrow set of prescriptions about how to do epistemology well (equivalent to object level ethics as opposed to meta level ethics).
Empire verification has its advantages and disadvantages. The disadvantages are that not every proposition is subject to empirical verification, and you do not have time to personally verify everything anyway. Outsourcing knowledge to other people is a defensible trade off. Most of the information people have comes from other people.
The prototypical questions of epistemology are: what is truth ? what is knowledge? how is knowledge attained? can knowledge be obtained?
You seem to be using “epistemology” ,to mean a fairly narrow set of prescriptions about how to do epistemology well (equivalent to object level ethics as opposed to meta level ethics).
Empire verification has its advantages and disadvantages. The disadvantages are that not every proposition is subject to empirical verification, and you do not have time to personally verify everything anyway. Outsourcing knowledge to other people is a defensible trade off. Most of the information people have comes from other people.