... retrospective look at my own state- of- nature account of the origins of the everyday concept of knowledge in Knowledge and the State of Nature, tosee how it looks in the light of the preceding discussion. ... construction of the concept of knowledge in Knowledge and the State of Nature. 6 What the words themselves suggest, to put it roughly, is that state- of- nature theories are those genealogies which ... specific exercise of the state- of- nature and genealogical methods: his own application of them, which forms the rest of the book, to the twin virtues of truthfulness, sincerity, and accuracy. With...