Definition for Difference between revisions of "Epistemology"
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Latest revision as of 14:43, 6 April 2019
1) The study of the mind’s capacity for knowing. Literally, ‘knowledge’ (episteme) + ‘theory’ (logos): major concerns of epistemology are the sources, criteria, and limits of knowledge.
2) A branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of knowledge and what it means to know something.