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EPISTEMOLOGY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The philosophical theory of knowledge
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("epistemology" is a kind of...):
philosophy (the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "epistemology"):
methodological analysis; methodology (the branch of philosophy that analyzes the principles and procedures of inquiry in a particular discipline)
Derivation:
epistemological (of or relating to epistemology)
epistemologist (a specialist in epistemology)
