 Here is one kind of metaepistemological answer: By filling in the above English schema, we are attempting to give a semantic analysis of the linguistic expression “S knows that p”. Those engaged in this project are investigating meaning. Of course, one aim might (distally) to investigate one thing by investigating (proximately) another. And so the epistemologist might purport to investigate knowledge rather than merely meaning by means of a semantic analysis of “S knows that p”. This is, in fact, the kind of position taken by various researchers who maintain that their positions about the semantics of knowledge attributions should be understood as casting light on the nature of knowledge (e.g., Stanley 2005; DeRose 2009; MacFarlane 2005; 2008b).