ABSTRACT

Chapter 7 explains the epistemological concepts of Integral Knowing. It resolves the relational dialectic of external versus internal justification of truth claims through embodied knowing; the process dialectic of foundationalism versus coherentism is resolved through situated knowing. It introduces and explains Mary Follett’s method of integration used to achieve intersubjective agreement. Integral Knowing generates the widest array of inputs to establishing truth within epistemic communities and remains open to ongoing questioning, evaluation, verification, and change. Through ongoing integration across epistemic communities, reasonable approximations of objective knowledge are produced at increasingly larger scopes.