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Epistemology

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The branch of philosophy that studies the nature of knowledge, its presuppositions and foundations, and its extent and validity.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The branch of philosophy dealing with the study of knowledge; theory of knowledge, asking such questions as "What is knowledge?", "How is knowledge acquired?", "What do people know?", "How do we know what we know?".

n. A particular theory of knowledge.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The theory of cognition; that branch of logic which undertakes to explain how knowledge is possible. Probably first used by Ferrier.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the philosophical theory of knowledge

Word Usage

"What seems to be happening in "The Paper" is that Sunstein and Vermeule are confusing the term epistemology with "belief system" which is a subject similar to "ideology" and is way beyond the scope of epistemology."

Hypernym

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philosophy

Hyponym

methodological analysis methodology

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cosmology theosophy ontology relativism macroevolution