epistemology

(noun)

noun

1. the philosophical theory of knowledge

Definition categories: thought, philosophy

Sentences with epistemology as a noun:

- 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.