Epistemology - Acquiring Knowledge

Acquiring Knowledge

The second question that will be dealt with is the question of how knowledge is acquired. This area of epistemology covers:

  1. Issues concerning epistemic distinctions such as that between empirical and non-empirical methods of formulating knowledge.
  2. Distinguish between synthesis and analysis used as means of proof
  3. Debates such as the one between empiricists and rationalists.
  4. What is called "the regress problem"

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    “There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.”
    —Denis Diderot (1713–1784)