In epistemology, the method of asking “What do we know?” before “How do we know?” The term is used in Roderick Chisholm’s “The Problem of the Criterion” and Ernest Sosa’s work, who was one of Chisholm’s students (“The Raft and the Pyramid: Coherence versus Foundations in the Theory of Knowledge”).

Methodism is compared to particularism, which answers the second question first. Particularism is fundamentally against skepticism because the question “What do we know?” assumes that people remember what they know.