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epistemology

Branch of philosophy that examines the nature of knowledge and attempts to determine the limits of human understanding. Central issues include how knowledge is derived and how it is to be validated and tested.



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From the results of this investigation, the epistemologist will be equipped with the descriptions of the way human beings usually pursue knowledge, from which he will be able to sift the "norms" for pursuing knowledge.
Epistemologists have suggested that what and how we know are premised on assumptions of what we imagine our world and ourselves to be.
That is no doubt what a rigorous epistemologist would say.
 
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