avers that we need not prove that we are right in order to have genuine knowledge. This is why young children, who have no epistemic theories at all, can have knowledge without proving it to themselves or others.13 And second, Practical Realism does not believe that cultural traditions blind us to the truth; rather, it believes that tradition is the very way that human beings grasp the truth. Tradition is right about the world (generally speaking) because, by its nature, tradition is the product