Some General Constraints on the Analysis of Knowledge and their Consequences for Warrant and for Substantive Accounts of Warrant

An important methodological issue in the theory of knowledge
is the question which kinds of items can serve as
data that a proposal for the analysis of knowledge should
cover. The common items are instances of knowledge or
of some epistemic quality such as justification.
Yet recent discussion has become more theoretical in
this methodological respect. General conditions have been
defended that any adequate analysis of knowledge should
fulfil. The most prominent instance is presumably the internalism/
externalism distinction, internalism and externalism
being highly general distinctions within accounts of justification
or warrant (which latter are intended as parts of the
analysis of knowledge).