Epistle vs Epistemology - What's the difference?
epistle | epistemology |
A letter, or a literary composition in the form of a letter.
* 1748 — (David Hume), , Section III, § 5.
(Christianity) One of the letters included as a book of the New Testament.
* 1956 — Werner Keller (translated by William Neil), The Bible as History , revised English edition, Chapter 41, page 358
(obsolete) To write; to communicate in a letter or by writing.
(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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As nouns the difference between epistle and epistemology
is that epistle is a letter, or a literary composition in the form of a letter while epistemology is 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 a verb epistle
is to write; to communicate in a letter or by writing.epistle
English
(wikipedia epistle)Noun
(en noun)- he may be hurried from this plan by the vehemence of thought, as in an ode, or drop it carlessly, as in an epistle or essay
- Even last century scholars had begun to search for the cities in Asia Minor whose names have become so familiar to the Chistian world through the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles of St. Paul.
Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Verb
(epistl)- (Milton)
epistemology
English
(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.