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Epistemology (from Greek ἐπιστήμη – episteme-, "knowledge, science" + λόγος, "logos") or theory of knowledge is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and scope (limitations) of knowledge. It addresses the questions "What is knowledge?", "How is knowledge acquired?", "What do people know?", "How do we know what we know?", and "Why do we know what we know?". Much of the debate in this field has focused on analyzing the nature of knowledge and how it relates to similar notions such as truth, belief, and justification. It also deals with the means of production of knowledge, as well as skepticism about different knowledge claims.

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Articles related to epistemology include:

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A Defence of Common SenseA posterioriA priori and a posterioriA Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human KnowledgeAbductive reasoningAcademic skepticismAcatalepsyAd hoc hypothesisAdaptive representation – Adolph Stöhr – AenesidemusAenesidemus (book) – African Spir – Agnosticism – Agrippa the Skeptic – Alethiology – Alief (belief) – Alison WylieAlvin GoldmanAn Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingAn Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingAnalytic–synthetic distinction – Anamnesis (philosophy) – AndrocentrismAndroid epistemologyAnthony WildenAnti-foundationalismAnti-realismApperceptionArda DenkelArgument from illusionAristotle's theory of universalsArnór Hannibalsson – Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir – Atli Harðarson – AtomismAutoepistemic logicAyn Rand

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Barry Stroud – Basic belief – Basic limiting principle – BeliefBertrand Russell – Bertrand Russell's views on philosophy – Björn KrausBlack swan theoryBlind men and an elephantBody of knowledgeBrain in a vatBrute fact

C

– C. D. Broad – Carper's fundamental ways of knowingCartesian doubt – Cartesian Other – Cartesian SelfCatherine Elgin – Causal chain – Causal Theory of Knowing – Causality – Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies – Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie AppliquéeCertaintyClaudio Canaparo – Cogito ergo sum – Cognitive closure (philosophy) – Cognitive synonymyCoherence theory of truthCoherentismCommon senseCompensationism – Composition of Causes – Computational epistemologyConcluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical FragmentsCondition of possibilityConsensus theory of truth – Constructivism (mathematics) – Constructivist epistemology – ContextualismContrastivismCorrespondence theory of truth – Counterintuitive – Crispin WrightCriteria of truthCritical rationalismCritical realismCritical thinkingCynicism

D

Daniel M. HausmanDavid HumeDeductive closureDefeasible reasoningDefeaterDeflationary theory of truth – Descriptive knowledge – Dharmarāja AdhvarinDialetheismDianoiaDirect and indirect realismDirect experienceDiscourse on the MethodDisjunctivism – Dispositional and occurrent belief – Divine command theoryDaimonicDogmaDoubtDoxaDoxastic attitudesDream argumentDuck test

E

– Eastern epistemology – Ecology of contextsEdgar Morin – Editology – Edmund Gettier – Educology – Egocentric predicament – Elephant test – EmergenceEmpirical evidence – Empirical method – Empirical relationshipEmpirical researchEmpiricism – Endoxa – Enneads – EpilogismEpistemeEpistemic closureEpistemic commitmentEpistemic communityEpistemic conservatismEpistemic feedbackEpistemic minimalismEpistemic possibilityEpistemic theories of truthEpistemic theory of miraclesEpistemic virtueEpistemicismEpistemocracy – Epistemological anarchism – Epistemological idealismEpistemological particularismEpistemological pluralism – Epistemological psychology – Epistemological realismEpistemological ruptureEpistemological solipsismEpistemology – Epoché – EristicErnst von GlasersfeldEureka effect – Everett W. Hall – EvidenceEvidentialismEvil demonEvolutionary argument against naturalismEvolutionary epistemology – Exclusion principle (philosophy) – Existential phenomenologyExoteric – Expectation (epistemic) – ExperienceExperiential knowledgeExperientialismExternismEyewitness testimony

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– Fa (concept) – FactFactual relativismFact–value distinctionFaith and rationalityFallibilismFalsifiabilityFeminist epistemologyFideismFinitismFitch's paradox of knowabilityFooled by RandomnessFormal epistemologyFormative epistemologyFoundationalismFoundherentismFragmentalismFrame problemFrank Cameron JacksonFred DretskeFrederick Wilhelmsen – Freethought – Functional contextualism

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– G. E. Moore – Gaston BachelardGenerativityGenetic epistemologyGeorge BerkeleyGeorge PappasGettier problemGiambattista VicoGila SherGilbert HarmanGilbert RyleGiulio GiorelloGnosiologyGödel's incompleteness theorems

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Harry BinswangerHeinz von FoersterHelmut Wautischer – Here is a hand – Hierarchical epistemologyHilary KornblithHumanismHume's fork

I

I know it when I see itI know that I know nothingIdeological criticismIdeologyIgnoramus et ignorabimusIgnoranceIlluminationismImmanuel KantIncorrigibility – Indeterminacy (philosophy) – Inductive reasoningInductivismInfallibilismInfallibilityInferenceInfinitism – Information source – InnatismInsightIntellectual responsibilityInternalism and externalismIntersubjective verifiabilityIntersubjectivity – Introduction to Objectivist EpistemologyIntrospection – Intuition (Bergson) – Intuition (philosophy) – Intuition (psychology) – Intuitionism – Irrealism (philosophy) – Is logic empirical? – Islamization of knowledge

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Jean PiagetJean-Louis Le MoigneJean-Michel Berthelot – John Greco (philosopher) – John HickJohn LockeJohn SearleJonathan DancyJonathan Kvanvig - Jules Vuillemin – Justified true belief

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Karla Jessen WilliamsonKatalepsisKeith LehrerKK thesisKnowing and the KnownKnowledgeKnowledge and Its LimitsKnowledge by acquaintance – Knowledge by description – Knowledge organization – Knowledge relativity

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Laplace's demonLarry LaudanLarry Sanger – Latitudinarianism (philosophy) – Laurence BonJour – Law (principle) – Leap of faithLeonard PeikoffLevels of adequacyList of epistemologistsLogical holismLogical positivismLottery paradox

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– Maieutics – Map–territory relationMargaret Elizabeth EganMathematical proofMeditations on First PhilosophyMemoryMeno – Meno's slave – Meta – Meta-epistemology – Metaphor in philosophyMetaphysical naturalismMetatheory – Methodical culturalism – Methodism (philosophy) – Methodological solipsismMichel de Montaigne – Mind extension – Mioara Mugur-Schächter – Misotheism – Molyneux's problemMoore's paradoxMoral rationalismMultiperspectivalismMundane reason

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Naïve empiricismNaïve realismNassim Nicholas Taleb – Naturalism (philosophy) – Naturalized epistemology – Nayef Al-Rodhan – Neopragmatism – Neutrality (philosophy) – New realism (philosophy) – Nicholas RescherNiklas LuhmannNomotheticNomothetic and idiographicNoogonyNorman MalcolmNoumenon

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– Object (philosophy) – Objectivism (Ayn Rand) – Objectivity (philosophy) – ObservationOntologismOmphalos hypothesisOpinionOutline of epistemologyOverbelief

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– P. F. Strawson – Pancritical rationalismPanrationalismParadigmParadigm shiftParticipatory theoryPaul ChurchlandPerceptionPerceptual learningPeripatetic axiomPerspectivismPessimismPeter MillicanPeter UngerPhenomenal conservatismPhenomenalismPhillip H. Wiebe – Philosophic burden of proof – Philosophical FragmentsPhilosophical Investigations – Philosophical problems of testimony – Philosophical skepticismPhilosophical theologyPhilosophical zombiePhilosophy of colorPhilosophy of perceptionPhilosophy of science – Plato's Problem – Platonic epistemology – Pluralism (philosophy) – Pluralist theories of truthPositivismPostfoundationalismPostmodern philosophyPostpositivism – Postulatism – Pragmatic theory of truth – Pramāṇa – PraxeologyPredictive powerPreface paradoxPreformation theoryPresentationism – Presupposition (philosophy) – Primary/secondary quality distinction – Principle of charityPrivate language argument – Privileged access – ProbabilismProbability interpretationsProblem of inductionProblem of other mindsProblem of the criterionProblem of universals – Proof (truth) – Propensity probabilityPropositional attitude – Pseudointellectual – Psychological nominalismPyrrhoPyrrhonism

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Ramification problemRational egoismRational fideismRational ignoranceRationalismRationalityReason – Reasonism – Redundancy theory of truthReformed epistemology – Regress argument – Relevant alternatives theoryReliabilismReligious epistemologyRobert AudiRobert NozickRoderick ChisholmRole of chance in scientific discoveries

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Sally Haslanger – Salvino Azzopardi – SatyaScepticism and Animal Faith – Scottish Common Sense Realism – Self-evidenceSemantic externalismSemantic theory of truthSensualismSextus EmpiricusSherrilyn RoushSimulated realitySimulation hypothesisSkepticismSleeping Beauty problemSocial constructionismSocial epistemology – Social Epistemology (journal) – Sociology of knowledgeSocratesSolipsism – Sophist (dialogue) – Speculative reason – Steve Fuller (sociologist) – SubjectivismSwamping problem – Swampman – Systemography

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Tabula rasaTarski's undefinability theoremTechneTelesisTestimony – The Black Swan (Taleb book) – The Course in Positive Philosophy – The Extended MindThe Postmodern ConditionThe Republic (Plato)The Roots of ReferenceThe Will to BelieveThe World as Will and Representation – Theaetetus (dialogue) – Theomachist – Theory of Forms – Theory of justification – There are known knowns – Thick Black TheoryThought experiment – Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (6.5) – Transcendent truth – Transcendental idealism – Transcendental philosophy – Transcendental realism – Transparency (philosophy) – Trenton MerricksTruth – Truth by consensus – Truth predicateTruth-value linkTwin Earth thought experimentTwo Dogmas of EmpiricismTwo truths doctrine

U

UncertaintyUnderdeterminationUnderstandingUniversal pragmatics – Unknown known – Unobservable – Upamāṇa

V

VaguenessVasily Seseman – Verification theory – VerificationismVerisimilitudeVeritismVienna CircleVirtue epistemologyVisual space – Voluntarism (metaphysics)

W

Walter Terence StaceWard Jones – What Engineers Know and How They Know It – Wilfrid SellarsWilliam AlstonWilliam CrathornWord and ObjectWorld Hypotheses – World view

X

Xenophanes

Y

– Yujian Zheng

Z

– Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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