According to Immanuel Kant, the great German philosopher of the 18th century, there are two types of knowledge: a priori and a posteriori. …
Epistemology: What Does it Mean to Know Something?
Epistemology is the philosophy of knowledge. What does it mean to know something, and what kinds of knowledge are there?
It is difficult to imagine a major thinker in Western philosophy who does not have an epistemology—the study of what knowledge is, how we get it, and …
The field of Epistemology often begins by examining visual perception, a primary doorway we enjoy to the world. But memory—our capacity to store and …
Epistemology is the philosophy of knowledge, or the study of knowledge itself, what it is and how it is possible. Knowledge was first defined by …
In the Platonic dialogues, Socrates gives us the impression that every act of knowing, more often than not, is accompanied by perplexity. Knowledge …
The study of knowledge, known as epistemology, is one of the important philosophical disciplines, and it gives us great insight into the history, …