epistemology

• For some reason, I have a personal aversion to the word epistemology, and find it difficult to take seriously texts that use it.Anyhow, I had almost given up on it when I came across Nat Bartels's chapter, "Knowledge about language", which isn't really about knowledge about language at all, but rather about deliberate practice.
• I suspect that Obama's epistemology -- and his popularity among the young -- is the product of American educational theory. —  Myrhaf
• This doctrine involves a new epistemology, the distinguishing mark of which is its denial of the immaculate conception of thought. —  Socialism: Positive and Negative
• They also supplemented his philosophy by constructing a Vedвnta epistemology, and by rethinking elaborately the relation of the mвyв, the Brahman, and the world of appearance and other relevant topics. —  A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1
• The reaction against authority in all spheres of life, and the intensity of the struggle, against great odds, for freedom of action and inquiry, led to such an emphasis upon personal observations and ideas as in effect to isolate mind, and set it apart from the world to be known This isolation is reflected in the great development of that branch of philosophy known as epistemology--the theory of knowledge. —  Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education

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