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| epistemology | |
| 1. n. 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 |  |
| Some thinkers take the view that, beginning with the work of Descartes, epistemology began to replace metaphysics as the most important area of philosophy. | |
| 2. n. A particular theory of knowledge. | |
| In his epistemology, Plato maintains that our knowledge of universal concepts is a kind of recollection. | |
