ontology - epistemology

is a distinction that implodes in post-structuralist thought because the idea of identifying some brute ontological reality is by definition epistemology (a way of 'knowing' this thing) while the idea of knowing something is ontology in the sense that to know is to be.

From the post-structuralist position, the border between the concepts of ontology . . . and epistemology . . . is not only fuzzy but also indistinguishable. The idea of identifying some brute ontological reality is by definition epistemology (a way of 'knowing' this thing) while the idea of knowing something is ontology in the sense that to know is to be. On this view, the difference between ontology and epistemology implodes. . . (Macintosh 2006: 30)

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