What John Frame Discovered (About Knowledge)

Frame’s epistemology is thoroughly triperspectival. By my lights, he has discovered* something that epistemology has flirted with for years—the threefold nature of knowledge. Even the historic definition of knowledge used by philosophers, viz. “justified true belief,” smacks of triperspectivalism.
— The Doctrine Shapes The Defense

Since writing The Doctrine Shapes the Defense, I’ve been told that it was actually Vern Poythress who first developed triperspectivalism. So who was it really? I don’t have a conclusive answer to that question, yet, so I’m leaving this quote as is, for now. —JS