The essay develops a theory of and models for a perspective on epistemology which may be referred to as “knowledge‐as‐status.” The perspective is intended to provide a particular conception of knowledge and a practical method for analyzing the development of and change in what we call knowledge. Toward those ends, the essay introduces the perspective, explains it as a way of understanding both the attainment of knowledge and changes in knowledge, and finally summarizes the issue of describing changes in knowledge.
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Richard E. Crable (1982) studied this question.