Can someone explain what metaphysics and epistemology means? And with examples as well please.
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Epistemology is just the study of ‘how we know things.’
An example might be something like if someone said “The earth is flat. You can’t prove it is round.” His claim is both a claim about ONTOLOGY (how things actually are .. e.g., flat or round) as well as a claim about EPISTEMOLOGY (how we can know or prove something.. eg., ‘you can’t prove it!’)
Philosophers might argue about different theories of knowledge … what does it mean to KNOW or BELIEVE something. What kind of beliefs constitute a justification for what we call ‘knowledge.’
Like, if I said I believe that Napoleon spit in a puddle in on January 10th, 1804, this might be true and I might be right… but this does not necessarily constitute true knowledge.
So epistemology has to do with a lot of this kind of stuff.
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