Epistemology

Question 1

Epistemology is the study of

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knowledge. and how we obtain it

Question 2

The term “epistemology” comes from the Greek

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“episteme,” meaning “knowledge,” and
“logos,” meaning, roughly, “study, or science, of.

Question 3

philosophers tend to use the word “know” in a

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factive sense

Question 4

Epistemologists typically do not focus on procedural or acquaintance knowledge,
however, instead preferring to focus on

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propositional knowledge.

Question 5

One kind of knowledge is
procedural knowledge,

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sometimes called competence or “know-how;”

Question 6

propositional knowledge (or the lack thereof) are properly expressed

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using “that”-clause

Question 7

Propositional knowledge, obviously, encompasses knowledge about a wide range of
matters:

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scientific knowledge, geographical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, self-
knowledge, and knowledge about any field of study whatever.

Question 8

One goal of epistemology is to

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determine the criteria for knowledge so that we can know what can or cannot be known,
in other words, the study of epistemology fundamentally includes the study of meta-
epistemology (what we can know about knowledge itself)