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Ways of knowing that operate outside or alongside the dominant Western scientific-academic framework. These aren't just different beliefs—they're different methods for arriving at beliefs. Indigenous knowledge passed through generations of observation and story. Embodied knowledge that lives in practice rather than propositions. Intuitive knowledge that patterns information below conscious awareness. Alternative epistemologies aren't necessarily better than dominant models, but they're not simply worse versions of them either—they're different tools for different kinds of understanding, evolved in different contexts for different purposes.
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