ontology - epistemology

is a distinction between an investigation concerned with what are the kinds and structures of the objects, properties and relations on the one hand, and on the other, an investigation concerned with how a particular subject can posit the existence of a particular object with a particular structure, or more precisely, when is a particular subject justified in holding that a particular object with a particular structure exist.

In other words, denying the fact that the ultimate and definitive ontology could be reached has nothing to do with the distinction between an investigation concerned with what are the kinds and structures of the objects, properties and relations, and another investigation concerned with how can a particular subject posit the existence of a particular object with a particular structure, or more precisely, when is a particular subject justified in holding that a particular object with a particular structure exist' (NET)

is a distinction that implodes in post-structuralist thought because the idea of identifying some brute ontological reality is by definition epistemology (a way of 'knowing' this thing) while the idea of knowing something is ontology in the sense that to know is to be.

From the post-structuralist position, the border between the concepts of ontology . . . and epistemology . . . is not only fuzzy but also indistinguishable. The idea of identifying some brute ontological reality is by definition epistemology (a way of 'knowing' this thing) while the idea of knowing something is ontology in the sense that to know is to be. On this view, the difference between ontology and epistemology implodes. . . (Macintosh 2006: 30)

is a methodological distinction that is maintained in order to be able to distinguish a cognitive process directed to the world from a cognitive process directed to another cognitive process.

the distinction between ontology and epistemology should be maintained, at least from a methodological point of view, in order to be able to distinguish a cognitive process directed to the world from a cognitive process directed to another cognitive process.' (NET)

is a discourse whose separation post-structuralism managed to problematize.

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)

ontology epistemology, n.All

ontology epistemology