epistemology
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Definitions ofepistemology
- 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?".
Example: "Some thinkers take the view that, beginning with the work of Descartes, epistemology began to replace metaphysics as the most important area of philosophy."
- A particular theory of knowledge.
Example: "In his epistemology, Plato maintains that our knowledge of universal concepts is a kind of recollection."
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