  Take for example the semantical arguments which were considered in the previous section. They rely on the idea that it is counter-intuitive to construe certain disputes over the application of moral terms as being merely apparent. In analogous disputes in epistemology, such as those between internalists and externalists about when to classify beliefs as “justified”, such a diagnosis may be more acceptable. At least, that is the upshot of a suggestion by William Alston, who indicates that it helps explain the lack of convergence in epistemology (see Alston 2005a, esp. ch. 1; Alston 2005b, 137; and Tersman 2010).