2. Robert thinks this problem is significant because
3. Robert defines epistemology as the branch of philosophy having to do with how we know things and what it means for something to be true or false, accurate or inaccurate. …show more content…
When Robert claims that, “the US is undergoing a deep epistemic breach”, which is a split in not what we value or want, but in who we trust, how we come to know things, and what we believe and what we know-what we believe exists, is true, has happened and is happening. The primary source of this breach is to make a long story short.
5. Robert means by “tribal epistemology” as the systematic conflation of what is true and with what is true to what is good with the tribe. The mindset that leads to this is that the far-right rejects the very idea of neutral, binding arbiters; there is only us and them, only a zero- contest for