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 - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne