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epistemology
has definitions from the field of philosophy
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[ noun ] (philosophy) the philosophical theory of knowledge
Used in print (John F. Hayward, "Mimesis and Symbol in the Arts"...)Whitehead is here questioning David_Hume 's understanding of the nature of experience ; he is questioning , also , every epistemology which stems from Hume 's presupposition that experience is merely sense_data in abstraction from causal efficacy , and that causal efficacy is something intellectually imputed to the world , not directly perceived . Related terms |
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