English-Finnish translations for epistemology

• tietoteoria
  Tietoteoriassa tutkitaan tiedon mahdollisuutta, luonnetta, alkuperää ja rajoja sekä käsitysten tai teorioiden oikeutusta yleensä.
• epistemologia

Definition of epistemology

• The branch of philosophy dealing with the study of knowledge; theory of knowledge, asking such questions as "What is knowledge?", "How is knowledge acquired?", "What do people know?", "How do we know what we know?
• A particular theory of knowledge

Examples

• Some thinkers take the view that, beginning with the work of Descartes, epistemology began to replace metaphysics as the most important area of philosophy.
• In his epistemology, Plato maintains that our knowledge of universal concepts is a kind of recollection.

Related words

• epistemological
• epistemologist
• epistemologically
• evolutionary epistemology