Pragmatism and Feminist Epistemology

Knowledge when viewed as a detached intellectual activity lacks the input of values and individual experience but then how would we derive universal knowledge without this impersonal relation.
Knowledge should be viewed as a balance between questioning and reasoning and the results of beliefs experience which may be revised to bring about true knowledge. I have always thought of knowledge as something that one knows based on experience or what one is taught. Since the topic of epistemology I revise that thought to include revision of knowledge based on a belief proven to be true or not after it has being tested.

Empiricist's Claim

Alot of ones knowledge can be accredited to the sensed for i.e the knowledge of pain that is felt and just understood as pain by an individual. This may not be true for all knowledge, however knowledge such as accounting, physics, chemitry cannot be attributed to the use of our senses as the means of this knowledge of these subject matters.

Reasoning with Descartes

Life would not be life if we doubted everything we were taught or ever perceived was true through our sense experience. I instead choose to believe that I have knowledge about something until that knowledge is tested and proven to be untrue. I cannot imagine life for me without my sense experience because if I believe that I exist. Why then can’t I trust my own senses to guide? Yes, there has been times that my perception by my senses hasbeen wrong. There have been times when I perceived a line to be straight but when tested it was slant. But so has knowledge that was reasoned to be true was proven to be untrue. Take for instance when it was believed thorugh reasoning that individuals were being infected by pellagra it was due to corn however was later proven to be a deficiency of vitamin B. Can you imagine reasoning through a green light because you were not able to trust your senses that the light was actually green and it meant you should proceed?