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epistemology

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"Knowledge theory"

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12 lettersPronunciation /ɪˌpɪstəˈmɒləd͡ʒi/Part of speech nounSorted eegilmoopstyStarts with EEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the philosophical theory of knowledge

Word origin

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 Scottish philosopher James Frederick Ferrier (1808–1864).

Used in a sentence

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

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