Abstract: Attempts to radically revise the still predominant Cartesian underpinnings of epistemological theorizing, by attacking the belief that all knowledge is and all epistemology should be primarily based on first-person knowledge. Davidson holds that a necessary condition of knowledge is third-person knowledge, in the sense that all kinds of knowledge presuppose the concept of objective truth and such a concept is only accessible to communicative creatures that share a common world of objects in space and time. Knowledge, therefore, far from arising through moves from the subjective to the objective, emerges holistically.

Keywords: belief, Cartesian epistemology, communicative creatures, epistemology, externalism, first-person knowledge, holism, knowledge, space and time, third-person knowledge, truth,