Word origin · etymology
Modern scholarly coinage from Greek components.
Epistēmē means knowledge or understanding; -logy marks an account or study. The name designates inquiry into knowledge.
How we know · epistemology
Philosophical inquiry
Epistemology examines knowledge, justification and the limits of evidence through argument and analysis. Philosophers disagree about its answers; here, an epistemology note identifies the basis of a claim and what that basis does or does not establish.
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