different between epistemology vs phenomenalism

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (epist?m?, “science, knowledge”), from ????????? (epístamai, “I know”) + -????? (-logía, “discourse”), from ???? (lég?, “I speak”). The term was introduced into English by the Scottish philosopher James Frederick Ferrier (1808-1864).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??p?st??m?l?d?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??p?st??m?l?d?i/, /??p?st??m?l?d?i/, /??p?st??m?l?d?i/, /i?p?st??m?l?d?i/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /??p?sti??m?l?d?i/

Noun

epistemology (countable and uncountable, plural epistemologies)

1. (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?", "How do we know it is true?", and so on.

   Synonym: kenlore

   Some thinkers take the view that, beginning with the work of Descartes, epistemology began to replace metaphysics as the most important area of philosophy.
2. (countable) A particular theory of knowledge.

   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.

Synonyms

• epistemics

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Further reading

• epistemology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• epistemology in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• epistemology in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• epistemology at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

phenomenal +? -ism

Noun

phenomenalism (countable and uncountable, plural phenomenalisms)

1. (philosophy) The doctrine that physical objects exist only as perceptual phenomena or sensory stimuli

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