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In order that this optimism is not made reducible to a mere expression of faith, it has to be supported by some idea of how it is possible to attain knowledge of that kind. Therefore epistemological objectivism or objectivity has to include also an account of the way or ways in which we can acquire objective knowledge. So objectivity is, as Nagel puts it in his earlier work, 'a method of understanding' (The View from Nowhere. New York: Oxford University Press, 198A, p. 4). |