epistemology

[ US /ɛˌpɪstəˈmɑɫəˌdʒi/ ]
[ UK /ɪpˌɪstɪmˈɒləd‍ʒi/ ]
NOUN
  1. the philosophical theory of knowledge
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How To Use epistemology In A Sentence

  • In modern epistemology, or theory of knowledge, certain assumptions are common.
  • Copernican revolution in philosophy", as he termed it: the most fundamental revolution in the whole history of epistemology; and his ethics is the most important one since Aristotle's. New Releases
  • Natural theology settled philosophical foundation of modern science in the aspects as ontology, epistemology, methodology. Actually it is "prior science" of modern science.
  • (1997, 2006, 2008) defends an empiricist and non-realist form of structuralism about science, motivated by an illuminating reconstruction of the origins of structuralism in the debate about the epistemology of physical geometry in the nineteenth century, and more generally in the progressive mathematisation of science. Structural Realism
  • Some of the goals of a non-epistemology are as follows: to free up the use of epistemological discourses; to refuse to submit them to the directions for use imposed by the putative synthesis of its objects; to transform the amphibolies of epistemology into particular objects without merely overturning oppositions.
  • A compartmentalized thinker who indulges in epistemology can destroy his knowledge, yet retain it as well.
  • But this epistemology itself is parasitic upon other practices, which serve the same ideological function.
  • If such impressions do not exist, it follows immediately in the context of Stoic epistemology that nothing can be known.
  • Each can be seen as drawing an analogy with one or more strands of Marxist epistemology.
  • The dislodging of epistemology from its old status of first philosophy loosed a wave, we saw, of epistemological nihilism.
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