Yandall Woodfin in his "With All Your Mind" constructs a general theory of knowledge in the following fashion. He contends that experience (empiricism) or the sensation of objects interacts with the Mind, which evokes the process of interpretation of those experiences. He gives credit to Immanuel Kant to some extent, who argued that we can never actually know the nature of the object which we perceive and that the human mind has built into it the faculties for the interpretation of those external objects. Consequently, in distinction to most of us who are common sense realists, believing that the external world is actually as we perceive it to be, Woodfin contends that this is not necessarily the case.
Therefore, beginning with sensory experience, which is interpreted by the human mind, the next phase of the process of "knowing" proceeds to what Woodfin terms an "intuitive risk". This dimension of the epistemologic process also seems to be subjective in that we intuit the way we perceive reality to be in light of experience and the process of reasoning through so to speak what we have experienced. Ultimately, this process of knowing finds its way, according to Woodfin, into the pragmatic channel, which speaks of the manner in which we react to or respond to the interpreted reality, which we have experienced.
