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Epistemology (pronounced eh-PIH-stem-AH-luh-jee) is the study of knowledge. It raises questions like. What is truth? Do we really know what we think we know? How can knowledge be made more reliable? It’s one of the oldest branches of philosophy, reaching far back into the time before Socrates.
30 paź 2024 · Epistemology, the philosophical study of the nature, origin, and limits of human knowledge. The term is derived from the Greek episteme (“knowledge”) and logos (“reason”). Along with metaphysics, logic, and ethics, it is one of the four main branches of philosophy.
In philosophy, epistemology is the study of the origin, nature, and scope of knowledge. Epistemology, the word has been derived from two Greek words, ‘episteme’ meaning knowledge, and ‘logia’ meaning discourse.
Epistemology is the philosophical study of knowledge. Also called theory of knowledge, [a] it examines what knowledge is and what types of knowledge there are. It further investigates the sources of knowledge, like perception, inference, and testimony, to determine how knowledge is created.
14 gru 2005 · Plato’s epistemology was an attempt to understand what it was to know, and how knowledge (unlike mere true opinion) is good for the knower.
5 paź 2023 · Epistemology is a fundamental branch of philosophy, as it is the study of knowledge itself. What is knowledge, how do we attain it, how much of it can we attain, and how can we trust it? How can we be sure that we know anything at all?
28 wrz 2023 · Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that studies the origin, nature and scope of knowledge. The term derives from the Greek words epistḗmē (“knowledge”) and lógos (“study” or “science), hence it is generally referred to as the theory of knowledge.
