epistemology
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- noun
- /ˌɛpɪstəˈmɑlədʒi/
- Specialized
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epistemología
- The study of epistemology helps us understand how knowledge is constructed and validated.
- starting point for epistemology
- Indigenous epistemologies
- epistemology and ethics
This is a important term in Stoic epistemology or Stoic logic, if you like.
- This is a important term in Stoic epistemology or Stoic logic, if you like.
- Very few people consider their epistemology now.
- So aesthetics, I'm very happy that that's our theme is much better than epistemology.
- And so during that time, I was more dismissive of my dad's epistemology than I would have liked to have been.
- You, I want to transition us to, to, to, to what you, what you're doing with your street epistemology.
- So I mean, I think in epistemology, philosophers talk about this view that's known as doxastic involuntarism.
- He coins the term metaphysics, epistemology, logic, ethics.
- Sometimes I think the soul has no epistemology.
- Not the unknown unknown and some excursion into fanciful epistemology.
- I talk about metacognition and self regulation and epistemology and metacognition is, is knowing when you know.
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And epistemology has another name, theory of knowledge.
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Now science is basically cultures answer to the big problem of epistemology, which is how can we know anything at all?
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In other words, the observer produces an epistemology of his or her own.
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Particularly, he sought to develop an epistemology by which others could attain such knowledge.
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I mean, look, possibilities were central to epistemology, right from Descartes on, if not before.
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The Price of Postmodernism: Epistemology and the Literary Canon.
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A dialectical epistemology sees contradictions as opportunities to be sought out and developed.
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The very structure of Bonaventure's epistemology raises difficulties concerning philosophical wisdom.
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Second, educators should actively engage prospective teachers' personal epistemologies with concrete tasks.
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Rorty's dismissal of metaphysics and epistemology in favor of the cultivation of new vocabularies calls for further comment.
Academic text (1991)
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Epistemology comes from the Greek root episteme 'knowledge' and the ending -logy 'study', the same ending you see in biology. So, epistemology is the study of how we know things and what makes knowledge reliable.