[MD] Academy

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[Joe]
> In the history of thought a theory of knowledge precedes metaphysics.
 
[DM]
> Does not every theory of knowledge assume a metaphysics
> whereby it can make any judgements?

Here is the dilemma:  On the one hand, nothing is real unless
it can be known/experienced.  So theory of knowledge precedes metaphysics.
But on the other hand, we cannot know/experience anything that we don't know
is possibly real.  So metaphysics must precede a theory of knowledge.
Might it be that our theory of knowledge & our metaphysics must emerge
together?
Craig