/ɛˌpɪstiːˈmɔlədʒi/► audioScrabble 20Words With Friends 23
Definition
noun the philosophical theory of knowledge.
Examples
“Some thinkers take the view that, beginning with the work of Descartes, epistemology began to replace metaphysics as the most important area of philosophy.”
“In his epistemology, Plato maintains that our knowledge of universal concepts is a kind of recollection.”