epistemology

ignorance

knowledge

ology (the study of)

philosophy

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

ontology

is a theory of rational thinking or of mathematical rationality which is not separable from the theory of being (ontology) since the structure of rationality and of being are the same (rationality).

for Spinoza, 'epistemology,' a theory of rational thinking or of mathematical rationality, is not separable from the theory of being in its most fundamental and general sense. The structure of rationality is the same as the structure of being causa is ratio. The alleged completeness of knowledge procured by the genetic definition, which is the ground of ascribing to it 'perfection,' or an epistemological advantage, has its utmost manifestation in the concept of causa sui'

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is concerned with logic, belief, perception, language, science, and knowledge.

Among the many topics included in epistemology are logic, belief, perception, language, science, and knowledge. ('Science' derives from the Latin 'scientia', which in turn translates the Greek 'episteme', from which English derives 'epistemology'.) (stanford plato middle period').

is defined against traditional epistemology with its subject/object relation, along with heidegger who makes the ontological observation that our transparent everyday way of coping with the available can be carried on independently of the emergence of a thematically conscious subject.

We saw how Heidegger uses against traditional epistemologywithits subject/ object relation the ontologicalobservation that our transparent everyday way of coping with the available can be carried on independently of the emergence of a thematically conscious subject with mental content,which must then be related to an object. (dreyfus 'being in the world' : 88)

is dependent upon a picture of the mind trying to faithfully represent (or mirror) a mind-independent, external reality. It is a wrong-headed search for the foundations of knowledge.

In Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979), Rorty argues that the central problems of modern epistemology depend upon a picture of the mind as trying to faithfully represent (or 'mirror') a mind-independent, external reality. If we give up this metaphor, then the entire enterprise of foundationalist epistemology is misguided. A foundationalist believes that in order to avoid the regress inherent in claiming that all beliefs are justified by other beliefs, some beliefs must be self-justifying and form the foundations to all knowledge.

is ethics in that, if man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth.

If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and ethics is epistemology. Herbert Marcuse

is only science self-applied. It is secondary to science and its task is to discover how we know what we know from science.

According to Quine, reality is, in effect, what we believe exist. In terms of our present conceptual scheme, he thinks that this means looking to scientist to tell us what reality is like. Indeed, epistemology is secondary to science for him and is 'only science self-applied'. Its task is merely to ask how we know what we know from science. His theory rules out the possibility of scepticism except as somehting parasitic on knowledge'

is, thanks to post-structuralism, broken down into a single concern with ontology.

One of the things post-structuralism did was to problematize the separation of ontology and epistemology as discourses and I inherit that breakdown' (Haraway 2000:78)

is the proposing, advocating, or refuting of theories about knowledge, belief, opinion, objectivity, detachment, argument, reason, rationality, evidence, facts, and truth.

knowledge, belief, opinion, objectivity, detachment, argument, reason, rationality, evidence, facts, truth. Proposing, advocating, or refuting theories of knowledge. 'concerned with reference: it asks whether representations of reality are accurate' (Annemarie Mol The Body multiple vii).

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