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The Epistemological Evaluation of Oppositional Secrets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Catherine Hundleby
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Abstract

Although political values guide people who take advice from standpoint epistemolo-gies in deciding whether to reveal secrets used to resist oppression, these decisions can also be understood and evaluated in purely cognitive or epistemological terms. When political considerations direct us to preserve a secret, the cognitive value progressively diminishes because the view of the world projected by the secret is increasingly vulnerable.

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Hypatia , Volume 20 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Analytic Feminism , Fall 2005 , pp. 44 - 58
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Copyright © 2005 by Hypatia, Inc.

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