 In his own work, Goldman (1999a; 1986; 2005: 403) has emphasized the methodological form or dimension of NE; and it is foremost in the work of others as well, including Quine (1969b) and Kornblith (e.g., 2002, 2007). In terms of the features of TE described above, a commitment to methodological NE would see us rejecting or qualifying both the a priori character of epistemology  (a), understood as a prescriptive claim, and its methodological autonomy (b): on this view, empirical methods and the results obtained thereby have a crucial role to play in epistemological theorizing.