Schools and movements whose defining doctrine concerns the sources, justification and limits of knowledge. Belongs here: empiricist, rationalist, pragmatist and skeptical schools, the classical Nyaya school of logic and epistemology, and the modern analytic and logical-positivist movements, whose founding project of clarifying meaning through verification and logical analysis is fundamentally an epistemological one even though it also produced work in logic and philosophy of science. Does not belong here: schools whose central doctrine is chiefly about being or about the state.
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1. Epistemology (Wikipedia)
WikipediaEpistemology, lead section, term-coining sentence
Despite its ancient roots, the word itself was coined only in the 19th century to designate this field as a distinct branch of philosophy.
Epistemology, lead section, early traditions sentence
Early reflections on the nature, sources, and scope of knowledge are found in ancient Greek, Indian, and Chinese philosophy.
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