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epistemology

noun
/ɪˌpɪstəˈmɒləd͡ʒi/UK/ɪˌpɪstəˈmɑləd͡ʒi/US/ɪˌpɪstɪˈmɔləd͡ʒi/

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐπιστήμη (epistḗmē, “science, knowledge”), from ἐπίσταμαι (epístamai, “to know”) + -λογία (-logía, “study or logic of”), from λόγος (lógos, “speech, language”). The term was introduced into English by (1808–1864).

  1. derived from by
  2. derived from ἐπιστήμη — “science, knowledge”

Definitions

  1. The branch of philosophy dealing with the study of knowledge

    The branch of philosophy dealing with the study of knowledge; the theory of knowledge, asking such questions as "What is knowledge?", "How is knowledge acquired?", "What do people know?", "How do we know what we know?", "How do we know it is true?", and so on.

    • Some thinkers take the view that, beginning with the work of Descartes, epistemology began to replace metaphysics as the most important area of philosophy.

  2. A particular instance, version, or school thereof

    A particular instance, version, or school thereof; a particular theory of knowledge.

    • In his epistemology, Plato maintains that our knowledge of universal concepts is a kind of recollection.
    • I believe that 'intuitionism' is usually, and rightly, taken to mean Brouwer's epistemology of mathematics, which is unrelated to the origin or content of topos theory.

The neighborhood

Derived

epistemologic, epistemological, epistemologically, epistemologist, epistopic, logico-epistemology, metaepistemology, ontoepistemology, standpoint epistemology, telepistemology

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA