Epistemology branches off from philosophy and deals with the origin of knowledge.

It's the issue of epistemology, the study of how do we know that something is true.

The primary secondary quality distinction is a conceptual distinction in epistemology and metaphysics, concerning the nature of reality.

And who hereafter were aghast to find, the embodiment of very different principles epistemology and frames of mind.

This eventually led him to pursue a Ph.D. in Zoology, which then led him to his second interest in epistemology.

Those branches of philosophy are known as metaphysics, fundamental questions about what there is, and epistemology, fundamental questions about how we know things.

Calvin's religious epistemology is based on the sensus divinitatis (Sense of Divinity), the view that the presence of God is universally perceived by all humans.

The prolific author or co author of over 30 books and over 300 scholarly articles has contributed to mathematical logic, philosophical logic, the philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, language theory, and the philosophy of science.

After having worked on problems of epistemology, and more particularly on the nature of perception (argument from illusion), he emerged as the leading proponent in ethics of moral particularism, the idea that all moral reasons are particular and context sensitive, rather than general.

Perhaps one of the reasons this comedy group's popularity transcended borders, including the Atlantic ocean, was their use of the Spanish language as a source for laughs. Far from slapstick humor, mockery, sexism and dirty jokes that are very characteristic of Hispanic comedy, Les Luthiers made use of wordplay and music, and referenced diverse themes such as psychoanalysis, math and epistemology.