Epistemology
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Epistemology is the study of the nature of knowledge, justification of beliefs, and the rationality of belief. Much debate in epistemology centers on four areas:
- (1) the philosophical analysis of the nature of knowledge and how it relates to such concepts as truth, belief, and justification,[1][2]
- (2) various problems of skepticism,
- (3) the sources and scope of knowledge and justified belief, and
- (4) the criteria for knowledge and justification.
Epistemology addresses such questions as: "What makes justified beliefs justified?",[3] "What does it mean to say that we know something?",[4] and fundamentally "How do we know that we know?"[5]
Notes
- ↑ Steup, Matthias (2005). Zalta, Edward N., ed. "Epistemology". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2014 ed.).
- ↑ Borchert, Donald M., ed. (1967). "Epistemology". Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 3. Macmillan.
- ↑ Steup, Matthias (8 September 2017). Zalta, Edward N., ed. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University – via Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- ↑ Carl J. Wenning. "Scientific epistemology: How scientists know what they know" (PDF).
- ↑ "The Epistemology of Ethics". 1 September 2011.
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