Epistemology is the inquiry into knowledge itself—it investigates what kinds of things we can know and what kinds of knowledge we can have of different kinds of things, recognizing that different domains of knowledge (arithmetic, empirical facts, morality, politics) may involve fundamentally different types of knowing.

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epistemology comes from two greek words... meaning speech or reasoning about knowledge itself... trying to account for what sort of things we can know about and second of all we're trying to account for what kind of knowledge we can have of different kinds of things

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Great Minds - Introduction to the Problems and Scope of PhilosophyMichael Sugrue
Created: 8/10/2026, 11:13:01 PM

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