different between existentialism vs epistemology

English

Etymology

From existential +? -ism; borrowed from German Existentialismus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???z??st?n??l?z?m/

Noun

existentialism (countable and uncountable, plural existentialisms)

1. (philosophy, not countable) A twentieth-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices.

   The heyday of existentialism occurred in the mid-twentieth century.

2. (philosophy, countable) The philosophical views of a particular thinker associated with the existentialist movement.

   Sartre's existentialism is atheistic, but the existentialism of Marcel is distinctly Christian.

   • 1965, Mikel Dufrenne, "Existentialism and Existentialisms," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol 26 no 1 (Sep), p. 51.

     Instead of Existentialism, we should speak of Existentialisms.

Antonyms

• noumenalism

Related terms

• exist
• existence
• existential
• existentialist

Translations

Swedish

Noun

existentialism c

1. (philosophy) existentialism

Declension

English

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