EPISTEMOLOGY

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Meaning:

The philosophical theory of knowledge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("epistemology" is a kind of...):

philosophy (the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "epistemology"):

methodological analysis; methodology (the branch of philosophy that analyzes the principles and procedures of inquiry in a particular discipline)

Derivation:

epistemological (of or relating to epistemology)

epistemologist (a specialist in epistemology)