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Epistemology | Definition, History, Types, Examples, Philosophers, & Facts | Britannica

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Epistemology, the philosophical study of the nature, origin, and limits of human knowledge. The term is derived from the Greek episteme (“knowledge”) and logos (“reason”). Along with metaphysics, logic, and ethics, it is one of the four main branches of philosophy.

epistemology Introduction The nature of epistemology Epistemology as a discipline Two epistemological problems Knowledge of the external world The other-minds problem Issues in epistemology The nature of knowledge Five distinctions Mental and nonmental conceptions of knowledge Occasional and dispositional knowledge A priori and a posteriori knowledge Necessary and contingent propositions Analytic and synthetic propositions Tautological and significant propositions Logical and factual propositions Necessary a posteriori propositions Description and justification Knowledge and certainty The orig

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