Epistemology

The study of theories of knowledge or ways of knowing, particularly in the context of the limits or validity of the various ways of knowing.

It is concerned with the nature, extent, sources and legitimacy of knowledge. Key questions in this area include: what must be added to belief to make it knowledge? What is genuine knowledge? How is knowledge acquired? Over the course of western philosophy, philosophers have concentrated on one or two of these issues to the exclusion of all the others; rarely has a philosopher embraced all of them.

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Contributed by: Richard P Whaite