Associations to the word «Epistemology»

Wiktionary

EPISTEMOLOGY, noun. (uncountable) 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?".
EPISTEMOLOGY, noun. (countable) A particular theory of knowledge.

Dictionary definition

EPISTEMOLOGY, noun. The philosophical theory of knowledge.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats