Epistemology Definition

ĭ-pĭstə-mŏlə-jē
epistemologies
noun
The study or theory of the nature, sources, and limits of knowledge.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Epistemology

Noun

Singular:
epistemology
Plural:
epistemologies

Origin of Epistemology

  • From Ancient Greek ἐπιστήμη (epistēmē, “science, knowledge”), from ἐπίσταμαι (epistamai, “I know”) + -λογία (logia, “discourse”), from λέγω (legō, “I speak”). The term was introduced into English by the Scottish philosopher James Frederick Ferrier (1808-1864).

    From Wiktionary

  • Greek epistēmē knowledge (from epistasthai epistē- to understand) (epi- epi-) (histasthai) (middle voice of histanai to place, determine stā- in Indo-European roots) –logy

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Epistemology Sentence Examples

  • Epistemology specifically studies knowledge and what we believe.

  • I would like to narrow down my study of philosophy to epistemology.

  • The result of the foregoing, however, is to show that, as soon as epistemology draws its conclusion, it becomes metaphysics; the theory of knowledge passes into a theory of being.

  • It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to draw a hard and fast line between epistemology and other branches of philosophy.

  • In his logic, and especially in his epistemology, Wundt appears as a mediator between Hume and Kant, but with more leaning to the latter.

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