ABSTRACT
Neither of these positions will be the prime target of this essay, though I am deeply interested in both. I wish rather to focus on a series of objections to EM that profess to remain faithful to the contemporary epistemological perspective of my first paragraph while still contriving some way for our current self conception to evade the standards of epistemological evaluation that naturally go with that perspective. These, I submit, are the genuinely inauthentic objections. They have achieved some currency and they need unmasking. Let us take them in turn.
