Epistemology

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Epistemology (derived from the Greek epistēmē 'knowledge' and logos 'reason') is the philosophical study of the nature, origin, and limits of human knowledge.[1] It translates the German concept of Wissenschaftslehre[2], which was used by Johann Gottlieb Fichte[3] and Bernard Bolzano.[4]

References

  1. Martinich, A. P., and Avrum Stroll. Epistemology. Encyclopædia Britannica.
  2. Suchting, Wal. Epistemology. Historical Materialism, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 331–45.
  3. Fichte, Grundlage der gesammten Wissenschaftslehre
  4. Bolzano, Wissenschaftslehre Vol. I.-IV.