Epistemology is the branch of philosophy which is concerned with the nature and the search of knowledge. It is also known as the theory of knowledge because of that. This branch of philosophy has focused on analyzing the nature of knowledge and how it connect with things such as the truth, beliefs and justifications. It also tries to find how the knowledge is produced, and also about the skepticism about different knowledge claims.
The term epistemology was first used by the Scottish philosopher James Frederick Ferrier (1808-1864). It this branch of epistemology, the kind of knowledge that is usually used is the propositional knowledge, also known as the “Knowledge what”. In recent times, some “recent” epistemologists have argued that epistemology should evaluate people’s properties, and not just the properties of propositions or propositional mental attitudes.
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