Abstract
Talk about ways of knowing currently takes place in an arena that more and more looks upon such epistemologies skeptically. Humanistic, as well as postmodern traditions acknowledge the relativities of perception, which extend, of course, to the realm of scientific investigation and discourse. Theoretical and even methodological values that humanist psychologists hold dear can be shown, on reflection, to have a foundation in their individual biographies. What does it mean, then, to strive for truthful understanding in humanistic research? The epistemological question is: to what do people's linguistic acts refer-to real experiences, to other linguistic acts, to personal values? Postmodernism suggests that the answer to this question would be the chain of signifiers that make up people's knowledge systems, whereas humanistic psychology (in its phenomenological adumbration) maintains a relational bond between the chain of signifiers and the situations that are signified (between the expressions of psyc...
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