epistemology
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Definition of epistemology
: the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity
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Other Words from epistemology
epistemologist
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Aristotelian logic and epistemology meet their match in the Indian Nyāya school, and his ethical teachings have often been compared to those of the Confucians. — Peter Adamson, The New York Review of Books, "What Was Philosophy?," 17 June 2019 This point is obvious for certain aptitudes, as the field of feminist epistemology in philosophy has emphasized. — WSJ, "Give No Triple Points for ‘Gender Differences’," 22 Nov. 2018 Temporalities, ontologies, and epistemologies are discussed. — Nate Berg, Curbed, "Can engineering save Louisiana’s coastline?," 7 Nov. 2018 Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the information gods, play at epistemology. — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, "Silicon Valley 'Has No Words'," 4 Apr. 2018 Yet if authenticity and consistency are among Spayd’s virtues, her vices include obtuse logic, shoddy epistemology, and the sort of common-sense conventionalism that a public editor ought to be challenging rather than championing. — Will Oremus, Slate Magazine, "How Liz Spayd is squandering the most important watchdog job in journalism.," 14 Apr. 2017 Philosophers call the study of knowledge epistemology, and this approach to design is entirely epistemological. — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, "Why a Toaster Is a Design Triumph," 20 July 2017 At what point did the Circle put a hiring freeze on anyone conversant with epistemology? Lampooning the simple-mindedness of utopian web clichés was arguably part of Mr. Eggers’s point, but much of that point is often muddled in the book. — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, "Review: In ‘The Circle,’ Click Here if You Think You’re Being Watched," 27 Apr. 2017 And in this tribal epistemology, meaning surged and collapsed in waves of outrage and comedy and irrelevance. — Stephen Marche, Esquire, "Why Canada Can't Laugh At America Anymore," 7 Nov. 2016These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'epistemology.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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