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单词 epistemology
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Definition of epistemology in English:

epistemology

noun ɪˌpɪstɪˈmɒlədʒiɛˌpɪstɪˈmɒlədʒiəˌpɪstəˈmɑlədʒi
mass nounPhilosophy
  • The theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope, and the distinction between justified belief and opinion.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It includes a number of books and articles that have nothing to do with epistemology and metaphysics.
    • You might say that this is the metaphysical residue not soaked up by Kantian epistemology.
    • This is a crucial element in contextualist epistemology, not a criticism of it.
    • These include matters of epistemology, ontology, semantics, and logic.
    • Yet defending praise and blame is not simply a matter of moral ontology and epistemology.
    • From the philosophical point of view, what this teaching does is to shift the focus of investigation from ontology to epistemology.
    • In modern epistemology, or theory of knowledge, certain assumptions are common.
    • A compartmentalized thinker who indulges in epistemology can destroy his knowledge, yet retain it as well.
    • He interprets the Critique of Pure Reason not as epistemology but as ontology.
    • The turn from epistemology to ontology was taken before Heidegger by Nicolai Hartmann.
    • Crathorn had to face up to the skeptical consequences of this odd epistemology.
    • For Berlin, the philosophy of history was tied not only to epistemology, but to ethics.
    • In addition, before I can figure out ethics for sure, I need to decide which epistemology I'm going to use.
    • These are matters of what philosophers call epistemology, the study of knowledge.
    • The authentic scientific ring of Russell's logic echoed in his epistemology of natural knowledge, Quine wrote.
    • They work not just in philosophy of religion but in epistemology and metaphysics.
    • This position is far removed from Parmenidean metaphysics and epistemology.
    • Each can be seen as drawing an analogy with one or more strands of Marxist epistemology.
    • In Britain, John Locke reacted against the innatism of Cartesian epistemology, but retained a theory of ideas.
    • Nietzsche never worked out his own epistemology in detail, nor is there any reason to think that he would have particularly wanted to.

Derivatives

  • epistemologist

  • noun
    Philosophy
    • Nonetheless, many epistemologists argue that fundamental issues concerning skepticism and the nature of epistemic justification cannot be successfully handled by the resources of naturalism.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It was sad for epistemologists, Hume and others, to have to acquiesce in the impossibility of strictly deriving the science of the external world from sensory evidence.
      • Like most pre-Cartesian epistemologists (if it makes sense to use that term before Descartes), he is more interested in explaining the process by which we come to have knowledge than he is in justifying knowledge claims.
      • This is not quite so straightforward an ‘empirical description’ as naturalistic epistemologists like to think.
      • Contemporary feminist epistemologists have pointed out how traditional philosophy's emphasis on rational, logical absolutes has devalued the ambiguities of the embodied life.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from Greek epistēmē 'knowledge', from epistasthai 'know, know how to do'.

 
 

Definition of epistemology in US English:

epistemology

nounəˌpistəˈmäləjēəˌpɪstəˈmɑlədʒi
Philosophy
  • The theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope. Epistemology is the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A compartmentalized thinker who indulges in epistemology can destroy his knowledge, yet retain it as well.
    • Each can be seen as drawing an analogy with one or more strands of Marxist epistemology.
    • For Berlin, the philosophy of history was tied not only to epistemology, but to ethics.
    • From the philosophical point of view, what this teaching does is to shift the focus of investigation from ontology to epistemology.
    • The authentic scientific ring of Russell's logic echoed in his epistemology of natural knowledge, Quine wrote.
    • This is a crucial element in contextualist epistemology, not a criticism of it.
    • Crathorn had to face up to the skeptical consequences of this odd epistemology.
    • The turn from epistemology to ontology was taken before Heidegger by Nicolai Hartmann.
    • These include matters of epistemology, ontology, semantics, and logic.
    • These are matters of what philosophers call epistemology, the study of knowledge.
    • It includes a number of books and articles that have nothing to do with epistemology and metaphysics.
    • In addition, before I can figure out ethics for sure, I need to decide which epistemology I'm going to use.
    • Yet defending praise and blame is not simply a matter of moral ontology and epistemology.
    • Nietzsche never worked out his own epistemology in detail, nor is there any reason to think that he would have particularly wanted to.
    • You might say that this is the metaphysical residue not soaked up by Kantian epistemology.
    • He interprets the Critique of Pure Reason not as epistemology but as ontology.
    • They work not just in philosophy of religion but in epistemology and metaphysics.
    • In modern epistemology, or theory of knowledge, certain assumptions are common.
    • This position is far removed from Parmenidean metaphysics and epistemology.
    • In Britain, John Locke reacted against the innatism of Cartesian epistemology, but retained a theory of ideas.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from Greek epistēmē ‘knowledge’, from epistasthai ‘know, know how to do’.

 
 
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