ABSTRACT
As humans, varying degrees of scepticism or doubt encompass different aspects of our social, economic, and political lives. But do we allow these doubts to incapacitate our psyche and have us questioning the very nature of our existence? It is a fact that humans often question what can be known and who can know. In this essay, I raise the question of what can be known for certain within the Afro-Caribbean context. The intention, here, is to show that the concept of knowledge is multifaceted, and that universal verities and the archaic way of viewing knowledge as solely propositional do not work in this context of the multifaceted understanding of knowledge. Among other basis for this is that knowledge about the world is disseminated widely within these societies and inhabitants of these societies are free to explore these ideas that are very dynamic. To achieve my aim in this chapter, I will analyze the Afro-Caribbean ontology of being, with the intent to show that the justification for the existence of Afro-Caribbean epistemology rests on a pluralist understanding of ontology. As such, in as much as humans seek to contextualize and understand the world and their place in it, there is supposed a plural way to which the world is understood.
