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.