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What does epistemology mean?

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  1. (uncountable) The branch of philosophy dealing with the study of knowledge; theory of knowledge, asking such questions as "What is knowledge?", "How is knowledge acquired?", "What do people know?", "How do we know what we know?".
  2. (countable) A particular theory of knowledge.
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Each can be seen as drawing an analogy with one or more strands of Marxist epistemology.
You might say that this is the metaphysical residue not soaked up by Kantian epistemology.
In modern epistemology, or theory of knowledge, certain assumptions are common.
The existence of deeply iterated sets, including the infinite ones, is a theoretical posit, supported by the upper tier of Maddy's epistemology.
This is a distinction central to the branch of the philosophy of social science known as epistemology.
Nietzsche never worked out his own epistemology in detail, nor is there any reason to think that he would have particularly wanted to.

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