epistemology

Noun

Meaning

The theory or science of the method or grounds of knowledge.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

method ontology philosophy logic ethics phenomenology cosmology sophistry aesthetics metaphysics Karl Popper axiology epistemological Sir Karl Raimund Popper gnosiology
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Antonyms

evaluativism

Hypernyms

philosophy

Hyponyms

methodology methodological analysis

Related terms

epistemic episteme epistemically epistemic regime epistemic crisis epistemics

Phrases with the word

genetic epistemology standpoint epistemology

Examples

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing? Gregory Bateson

If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and ethics is epistemology. Herbert Marcuse

Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology. Ian Hacking

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know? Theodore Bikel

The quality of the human that precludes identifying the individual with the class is ‘metaphysical' and has no place in empiricist epistemology. The pigeon hole into which a man is shoved circumscribes his fate. Max Horkheimer

Each subsociety of mind must have its own internal epistemology and phenomenology, with most details private, not only from the central processes, but from one another. Marvin Minsky

Close letter words and terms

epistemological turn epistemologically epistemologist epistemophilia episternal episternum