Epistemology vs Axiomatic - What's the difference?
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(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?".
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(countable) A particular theory of knowledge.
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Evident without proof or argument.
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Of or pertaining to an axiom.
(informal) Obvious.
As a noun epistemology
is (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?".As an adjective axiomatic is
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(wikipedia epistemology)Noun
(epistemologies)- 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.
- I believe that 'intuitionism' is usually, and rightly, taken to mean Brouwer's epistemology of mathematics, which is unrelated to the origin or content of topos theory.
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The students nodded, emphatically agreeing with a statement which upwards of sixty-two thousand repetitions in the dark had made them accept, not merely as true, but as axiomatic , self-evident, utterly indisputable.
- It is axiomatic that the "physical entry of the home is the chief evil against which the wording of the Fourth Amendment is directed."