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Definition of Epistemology
1. Noun. The philosophical theory of knowledge.
Specialized synonyms: Methodological Analysis, Methodology
Derivative terms: Epistemological, Epistemologist
Definition of Epistemology
1. n. The theory or science of the method or grounds of knowledge.
Definition of Epistemology
1. Noun. The branch of philosophy dealing with the study of knowledge; 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?". ¹
2. Noun. A particular theory of knowledge. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Epistemology
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Literary usage of Epistemology
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Philosophy, Its Scope and Relations: An Introductory Course of Lectures by Henry Sidgwick, James Ward (1902)
"Further, he conceives epistemology to be concerned with three questions : (1)
... epistemology is concerned with the first question only so far as that is ..."
2. Introduction to Philosophy: A Handbook for Students of Psychology, Logic by Oswald Külpe (1897)
"epistemology. 1. In the wider sense of the,term, epistemology or theory of
knowledge means the science of the material and formal principles of knowledge; ..."
3. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1902)
"epistemology AND ETHICS. HCW Essai critique sur le droit ... spirit into the
modern controversies concerning the problems of ontology and epistemology. ..."
4. The Problem of Knowledge by Douglas Clyde Macintosh (1915)
"... as a device for showing the rational possibility of a sufficiently critical
epistemology which shall combine realism with epistemological monism, ..."
5. Introduction to Philosophy by Wilhelm Jerusalem (1910)
"THE DEVELOPMENT AND THE SCHOOLS OF epistemology It is the business of epistemology
to investigate the ..."
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